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Top 5 Science Books You May Not Have Read – #4 Julian Jaynes ‘The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind’
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— 21 Mar 2007 Alan 13 comments

Crazy title, crazy book. And for a while Jaynes was painted as a crackpot too — he had committed the sin of publishing his theory as this popular and accessible book instead of in the technical language of a peer-reviewed journal. The book rece[…]

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Top 5 Science Books You May Not Have Read – #5 Robert Axelrod’s ‘The Evolution of Cooperation’
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— 12 Mar 2007 Alan 6 comments

I trust you all watched the first of Adam Curtis’s new documentary on freedom last night (The Trap, repeated BBC4 surely, so look out for it.) It might have left you in a state of paralysis as he traced the impact that a strain of game theory h[…]

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