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Books like This Is Your Mind on Plants
The best books like This Is Your Mind on Plants are How Not to Die, In Defense of Food, and The Omnivore's Dilemma. This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan is about consciousness, psychoactive plants, drug policy. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- How Not to Die
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Michael Greger · Health
How Not to Die is Michael Greger's systematic argument that the fifteen leading causes of death in the United States are largely preventable through diet and lifestyle change.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - In Defense of Food
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Michael Pollan · Health
In Defense of Food opens with seven words that amount to a quiet provocation: Eat food.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - The Omnivore's Dilemma
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Michael Pollan · Health
The Omnivore's Dilemma is Michael Pollan's investigation into four food chains — industrial, industrial organic, local pastoral, and hunted-and-gathered — organized around the question of what we should eat.
A kindred science read.
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- Why We Sleep
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Matthew Walker · Science
Why We Sleep is Matthew Walker's attempt to do for sleep what no amount of public health messaging has managed: make people genuinely afraid of what they're losing.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Sam Harris · Religion & Spirituality
Waking Up is Sam Harris' argument that the insights of contemplative traditions — particularly Buddhism's claim that the sense of self is an illusion — can be separated from religious metaphysics and investigated directly through meditation and introspection.
Both dig into consciousness.
Read the summary → - Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake · Science
Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist who has spent his career studying fungi, and Entangled Life is his account of what fungi are, what they do, and why most people who think they know something about the natural world understand almost nothing about this kingdom of life.
Both dig into consciousness.
Read the summary → - From Bacteria to Bach and Back
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back
Daniel C. Dennett · Science
Daniel Dennett's 2017 book is his most comprehensive attempt to explain how minds — conscious, intentional, creative minds — could have evolved from mindless matter without any homunculus, soul, or top-down designer.
Both dig into consciousness.
Read the summary → - Gödel, Escher, Bach
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Douglas Hofstadter · Science
Douglas Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, published in 1979, asks how meaning can arise from formal rules — how a biological machine can think, feel, and experience self-awareness.
Both dig into consciousness.
Read the summary → - How the Mind Works
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Steven Pinker · Science
How the Mind Works is Steven Pinker's synthesis of cognitive science and evolutionary psychology, built around a central thesis: the mind is a computational system — a neural computer — shaped by natural selection to solve the adaptive problems that faced our ancestors on the Pleistocene savanna.
Both dig into consciousness.
Read the summary → - How to Change Your Mind
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Michael Pollan · Science
Michael Pollan came to psychedelics late in life, as a skeptic.
Both dig into consciousness.
Read the summary → - How to Create a Mind
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Ray Kurzweil · Science
Ray Kurzweil's central claim in How to Create a Mind is that the neocortex — the part of the brain responsible for higher thought — operates on a single repeating algorithm called the pattern recognition theory of mind.
Both dig into consciousness.
Read the summary → - Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark · Science
Life 3.0 is Max Tegmark's accessible survey of the questions raised by the prospect of human-level and superhuman artificial intelligence: What are the plausible paths to AGI?
Both dig into consciousness.
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Books like This Is Your Mind on Plants: quick answers
What are the best books like This Is Your Mind on Plants?
The best books like This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan are How Not to Die by Michael Greger, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with This Is Your Mind on Plants, such as consciousness, psychoactive plants, drug policy.
What should I read after This Is Your Mind on Plants?
A natural next read after This Is Your Mind on Plants is How Not to Die by Michael Greger. A kindred science read. Other strong choices are In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker.
What books are similar to This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan?
This Is Your Mind on Plants centers on consciousness, psychoactive plants, drug policy. Books with a similar feel include How Not to Die by Michael Greger, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
