Marvin Minsky's "The Society of Mind". Nice web version [1]
Ask HN: What are some of the best books you’ve read about memory and the brain?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best books you’ve read about memory and the brain?
#12While the other recommendations are great, they are more psychologically focused.
Check out Eric Kandel's "In Search of Memory". I really can't recommend it enough. He talks about his early work with aplysia and contemporary research into the basis of memory.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best books you’ve read about memory and the brain?
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm aware of how usefull and mind-opening Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" is. However one should know that a lot of the experiments done to corroborate the books arguments are underpowered and people were unable to replicate a bunch of them. So don't take the books ideas too seriously and allow for much more nuance than the arguments allows.
100%. I take many of the specific results with a grain of salt but I think the general themes are well founded. I think about WYSIATI every day
> WYSIATI
What now?
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best books you’ve read about memory and the brain?
#14I like "Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are" by Joseph Ledoux. It's less pop science and gets into some detail about how our neurons work at the cellular level. He's not afraid to use doodles to communicate ideas and I found the whole thing a really pleasant read as a neuroscience undergraduate student. The only thing worth noting is it's from 2002, so it's drawing on older research and examples from the field.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best books you’ve read about memory and the brain?
#15On Intelligence, by Hawkins.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best books you’ve read about memory and the brain?
#16I really loved Why We Sleep by PhD Walker. It's not specific about the brain, but it does go over how sleep improves memory and learning
From what I heard here on HackerNews itself, that book is not 100% accurate. In fact some said that there were lot of errors in that book. So anyone planning to read it, I suggest keep verifying things to get your facts right. Will be a painful process, but better to learn the right things than have wrong info for something as critical as sleep.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best books you’ve read about memory and the brain?
#17I like "Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are" by Joseph Ledoux. It's less pop science and gets into some detail about how our neurons work at the cellular level. He's not afraid to use doodles to communicate ideas and I found the whole thing a really pleasant read as a neuroscience undergraduate student. The only thing worth noting is it's from 2002, so it's drawing on older research and examples from the…
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