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Originally Posted by din155
Not a single comment so far? I want to read The Future of Mind but happy to go with any choice. To be honest this was the category I was looking forward to the most since we voted for the new categories for 2016. I have a feeling that any of these books would inspire a great discussion.
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The Future of the Mind is my first choice also, but
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? would be another great one. If there's one aspect of life in which I feel scientists and philosophers have let us down, it's in the understanding of animal intelligence and emotions. In the past, so many of them have been so fearful of "anthropomorphizing" animal behavior that they refused to admit the possibility of animal's sense of self altogether. As de Waal has pointed out elsewhere, that view is slowly changing. And then there's
Death from the Skies. You can hardly go wrong reading a book by the Bad Astronomer himself, Phil Plait.