The Language Instinct
by Steven Pinker | 
The Dragons of Eden
by Carl Sagan | 
The Spell of the Sensuous
by David Abram | 
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
by Steven Novella |
Emergence
by Steven Johnson | 
The Web of Life
by Fritjof Capra |
Quantum Psychology
by Robert Anton Wilson | 
The Doctor and the Soul
by Viktor E. Frankl | 
A General Theory of Love
by Thomas Lewis | 
The Social Animal
by David Brooks | 
The Brain: The Story of You
by David Eagleman | 
Incognito
by David Eagleman |
Integral Psychology
by Ken Wilber | 
How to Create a Mind
by Ray Kurzweil | 
The Divided Self
by R. D. Laing | 
The Mind and the Brain
by Jeffrey M. Schwartz | 
Entangled Minds
by Dean Radin | 
Lying
by Sam Harris | 
The Most Human Human
by Brian Christian |
Realms of the Human Unconscious
by Stanislav Grof |
These imaginative thought experiments are the inventions of one of the world's eminent brain researchers.These imaginative thought experiments are the inventions of one of the world's eminent brain researchers. They are "vehicles," a series of hypothetical, self-operating machines that exhibit increasingly intricate if not always successful or civilized "behavior." Each of the vehicles in the series incorporates the essential features of all the earlier models and along the way they come to embody aggression, love, logic, manifestations of foresight, concept formation, creative thinking, personality, and free will. In a section of extensive biological notes, Braitenberg locates many elements of his fantasy in current brain research.