Matthieu Ricard, has a Phd in molecular genetics and was one of Frances most promising scientists. But then he went to the Himalaya and became a Buddhist monk. After a long time he met his father again and had a wonderful dialogue with him, which has been published: the Monk the Philosopher (also available in [...]

The two books are something like a “freak show” of people who have some problem in their brain, which leads to amazing manifestations in behavior. They are not about serial killers or anything morbid, but about what amazing things can happen when you have brain damage. Both books are very easy to read and extremely [...]

Neuroscience is a vast body of reasearch which looks into how our brain works and how it relates to what we do and who we are. In the last decade and more, a lot of funding has been poured into this and there has been quite impressive progress in the field. Now even some “big” [...]

Read The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul by Dennett and Hofstadter. This is a book that tackles the question who/what am I? in such a way as to leave you with more questions at the end. It is great if you really want to be challenged.
The book is actually edited by [...]

I would like to recommend two outstanding inspirational books:
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. This book is very engaging and it will be hard to put it down once you start it. It is actually a dialogue between a person and a very wise monkey. The monkey actually makes a cultural analysis of our world and goes [...]