The Matter With Things

BOOK REVIEWThe Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the Worldby Iain McGilchrist 2021 About the AuthorDr Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal … Continue reading The Matter With Things

Cancer, Incorporated

BOOK REVIEWCancer, Incorporatedby Ralph W. Moss 2020 About the AuthorRalph W. Moss, Ph.D., has written or edited fourteen books. As well as that, he has collaborated on four film documentaries on cancer. In the 1970s, Dr. Moss was the assistant director of public affairs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Moss also writes the Moss … Continue reading Cancer, Incorporated

Consciousness Unbound

BOOK REVIEWConsciousness Unbound: Liberating Mind from the Tyranny of Materialismby Edward F. Kelly & Paul Marshall, Editors 2021 About the Book"Properly advanced science and spirituality serve to strengthen each other, and this magnum opus leads the way! This third book in a trilogy (so far!) offers a well-supported consolidation of empirical data and theoretical frameworks … Continue reading Consciousness Unbound

The Unseen Body

BOOK REVIEWThe Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy by Jonathan Reisman 2021 About the AuthorJonathan Reisman M.D. is the author of The Unseen Body, a journey through the human body and across the globe that weaves together stories about our internal organs with a unique perspective on life, culture … Continue reading The Unseen Body

The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience

BOOK REVIEWThe Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscienceby Aron K. Barbey, Sherif Karama, Richard J. Haier 2022 About the AuthorsAron K. Barbey is Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He directs the Center for Brain Plasticity, the Intelligence, Learning, and Plasticity Initiative, and the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory … Continue reading The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience

Ways of Being

BOOK REVIEWWays of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines; The Search for a Planetary Intelligenceby James Bridle 2022 About the AuthorJames Bridle is a writer and an artist. Their writing on art, politics, culture, and technology has appeared in magazines and newspapers including The Guardian, The Observer, Wired, The Atlantic, the New Statesman, frieze, Domus, and ICON. … Continue reading Ways of Being

Transformer

BOOK REVIEWTransformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Deathby Nick Lane 2022 About the AuthorNick Lane is a professor of evolutionary biology at University College London and an award-winning author of five books. He is the codirector of UCL’s Centre for Life’s Origins and Evolution (CLOE) and lives in London, England. About the Book"In this … Continue reading Transformer