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The Mind Club

By: Daniel M. Wegner,Kurt Gray
Narrated by: David Marantz
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Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine)

From dogs to gods, dive into the science of mysterious minds - including your own.

Nothing seems more real than the minds of other people. When you consider what your boss is thinking or whether your spouse is happy, you are admitting them into the "mind club". It's easy to assume other humans can think and feel, but what about a cow, a computer, a corporation? What kinds of minds do they have?

Daniel M. Wegner and Kurt Gray are award-winning psychologists who have discovered that minds - while incredibly important - are a matter of perception. Their research opens a trove of new findings, with insights into human behavior that are fascinating, frightening, and funny. The Mind Club explains why we love some animals and eat others, why people debate the existence of God so intensely, how good people can be so cruel, and why robots make such poor lovers. By investigating the mind perception of extraordinary targets - animals, machines, comatose people, God - Wegner and Gray explain what it means to have a mind and why it matters so much.

Fusing cutting-edge research and personal anecdotes, The Mind Club explores the moral dimensions of mind perception with wit and compassion, revealing the surprisingly simple basis for what compels us to love and hate, to harm and to protect.

©2016 The Estate of Daniel M. Wegner and Kurt Gray (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

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"Enlightening without sounding prescriptive, this audio will make listeners take a sober look at their own emotions, how they react to others, and how they can be more responsible and enlightened citizens." ( AudioFile)

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Who is the self in me? Am I part of something bigger?

These questions and many more about the mind have been asked by philosophers since humans existed. This book, in a very engaging, and simple to follow manner puts forward many arguments for the mind, the self, and who has it.

How do we relate to others, when all we have is our own brain/mind. we can assume we understand others by the way they behave, but that's only because we can understand what we feel. What about animals? Do we put a human face to them, and see us in them, or do they have minds. How about plants? Why can't we attribute a mind to them? They are all alive after all. How about corporations? Cities, countries, or crowds? Do they have a mind of their own.

This book more than any others, make one think about how narrow minded we are when we say something has a mind. "Mind"after all is only a word. How we define it can either expand our horizon or narrow it down. The author eloquently explains this by first defining the self, and our mind, and then opens our mind to the possibility that other things we may never think can have a mind may very well do. Who are we to say only humans have this incredible gift.

Great read, highly recommended for someone with big questions about the self.

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enlightening, Interesting, well read.

I am NOT sure if my unconscious brain loved this book and then convinced my mind that I did also. But in ether case, I would highly recommend to anyone to try to get their own mind to attempt to convince their brains to purchase this book for themselves.

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Lively, delightful intro to mind

Much of this is old hat for those in the field, and some of cited studies are dated/shaky (inevitable considering the scope of the book) but the authors (both of whom I deeply admire) put it all together quite wonderfully. Very close to a must-read for anyone interested in this sort of thing. The

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Excellent

The most entertaining book on the mind that I've read.
I'm ready to read it again and have already made a about a mental list of people I know I will be buying a copy for. I definitely think you should check it out.

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Attention span of a turnip

I am afraid I lack the attention span of a turnip because I could not get past the 20 minute mark of your book. You did very little to bring me into the story besides wild assumptions and fantasies about plant life

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Very insightful!

Highly fascinating book with tons of food for thought. I also found the narrator to be very funny. Would recommend to anyone interested in the concept of mind and how our perceptions of it shape our experience.

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Loved this book

It is well read, the authors are amazingly witty and it it full of great insights into how we think and perceive things.

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Fascinating

I learned so much about our perception of the world around us, other people and ourselves. What makes this so interesting us the combination of thought on the many aspects of mind with basis on research, to provide a lot of factual background.

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Opens up your thinking cap

I enjoyed it! The identity of self and self in others is something I think we should constantly question. By understanding how we perceive and how we can alter our perceiving is essential.

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Great Book

Very interesting and offers many insight into how we think (me, you and groups in general).

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