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What Makes Us Human?
Explore competing accounts of perception, consciousness, behavior, and the social instincts behind everyday life.
Books in this collection
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
These clinical tales ask how memory, body-awareness, perception, and identity survive when the nervous system changes. Cases of amnesia, seizures, Tourette’s, and unusual creativity show why brain mechanisms must be read alongside biography, feeling, meaningful activity, and humane support.
The Tell-Tale Brain
The Tell-Tale Brain presents the brain as a plastic, networked interpreter whose unusual failures reveal ordinary perception, body ownership, social understanding, language, art, and selfhood. Its central question is how ape-derived neural systems became capable of human culture and consciousness; its value is a mechanism-based map of both evidence and uncertainty.
