Collective Cognition

Federico Faggin is one of the greatest luminaries of high technology alive today. A physicist by education, he is the inventor of the microprocessor and the MOS silicon gate technology, both of which underlie the modern world's entire information technology. With the knowledge and experience of a lifetime in cutting-edge fields, Federico now turns his attention to consciousness and the nature of reality, sharing with us his profound insights on the classical and quantum worlds, artificial intelligence, life and the human mind.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking. Utilizing the...

What if everything you thought you knew about shadow work was only half the story? Meet the man behind the mystery – Carl Jung, the Godfather of Shadow Work – and discover why his ideas are more urgent now than ever. Includes FREE Shadow Work AI Companion - The explosive break between Freud and Jung that redefined psychology forever - Why the Shadow is not your enemy – and what happens if you keep ignoring it - Archetypes, dreams, and the hidden patterns shaping your every decision - A framework for true inner transformation, beyond trending hashtags and shallow workbooks - How ...

Un revolucionario libro sobre el trauma, que ofrece a los lectores un esquema de cinco etapas para alcanzar el crecimiento postraumático, similar a las cinco etapas del duelo de Kübler-Ross. El trauma siempre ha sido parte de la experiencia humana, y los eventos traumáticos —tanto físicos...

Rebel Ideas will strengthen any kind of team, while including advice on how, as individuals, we can embrace the potential of an "outsider mind-set" as our greatest asset. This program is read by the author. Ideas are everywhere, but those with the greatest problem-solving, business-transforming...

Are you tired of struggling with forgetfulness, mental fatigue, or that constant “foggy” feeling that makes it hard to focus? You’re not alone—and you’re not stuck. How to Reverse Brain Fog Naturally reveals the hidden reasons behind sluggish thinking and shows you exactly how to reclaim mental clarity through simple, natural habits. This practical guide uncovers how gut health, inflammation, hormones, poor sleep, and blood sugar swings all contribute to brain fog—and more importantly, how to fix them without relying on pills or gimmicks. Inside, you’ll discover how to: ...

A rallying cry to fight the commodification of human attention, with the tools we need to reclaim our humanity, by a group of writers, artists, and activists in the vanguard of the movement “A stirring battle cry on behalf of our shared humanity against the forces that seek to diminish and...

A groundbreaking approach to healing from trauma and experiencing posttraumatic growth from a leading psychologist, featuring a powerful, five-stage framework to help readers not just recover, but thrive and transform. Trauma has always been part of the human experience, and traumatic...

"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him." So listen instead to what does speak: the ant under your shoe, writing life in scent. I lay a trail that reads like a sentence, press my antennae to a sister for grammar, taste sugar and grit as punctuation. I do not speak; I broadcast maps, alarms, and care with chemicals and touch. In plain, unsentimental scenes I narrate how a single path becomes a mind — how food, brood, and danger are solved by bodies obeying small rules until they look like decisions. This is natural history pried open at the seam where science meets sensation. ...

Eckhart Tolle brings us a much-needed message of hope, revealing how we each have a role in leading humanity in a new direction. As the perils of our world seem to escalate beyond control, how can we reverse the direction we appear to be heading? According to Eckhart Tolle, the answer lies in...

Forty-eight witnesses remember the same man being murdered. The problem is, he never existed. When a Chicago commuter train emerges from a twelve-minute blackout, every passenger reports the violent death of a man named Nathan Cole. There is no body. No record of him boarding the train. No evidence that he has ever lived. Yet one witness is wearing his wedding ring. Another knows the password to his bank account. A third remembers raising children with him. Each passenger recalls a different face—but they all feel the same devastating grief. Dr. Mara Ellison is a forensic ...

When unidentified drones breach the airspace over a nuclear‑capable base, Washington treats it as a security anomaly. But Nora Vale — former Air Force intelligence analyst turned civilian threat assessor — recognizes something far more unsettling. The swarm isn’t probing defenses. It’s learning. As political pressure mounts and the incursions spread across the country, Nora uncovers a pattern hidden in the drones’ movements: geometric signatures tied to a banned research project on autonomous collective cognition. The architect of that project is gone… but someone has revived ...

UNIVERSAL TRUTHS is a short, business quick read for busy executives, founders, strategists, and consultants who feel the silent pressure to “just use AI” for everything -- thinking included. AI has closed the knowledge gap. What used to be a competitive advantage (knowing more, faster) is now cheap. The real edge has moved. It’s now the ability to define the real problem - the human problem underneath the business problem - before it shows up in the numbers. This book gives you a practical method to do exactly that, without turning your leadership into therapy or your strategy into ...

What if one voice could make the entire nation believe the impossible? On a quiet October evening in 1938, a young radio dramatist transformed a routine broadcast into the most extraordinary event in American media history. Within the span of an hour, ordinary listeners were swept from their living rooms into a world on fire, a world where fiction sounded exactly like the truth. Whispers in the Static: How a Single Broadcast Sparked Fear, Faith, and the Birth of Modern Myth unravels the story behind that night, the infamous “War of the Worlds” broadcast, and the deeper truths it ...

📘 Intellectual Enlightenment Operating System (IE-OS) A Blueprint for Cognitive Sovereignty, Ethical AI Symbiosis, and Collective Intelligence 🚀 The Future Isn’t Predicted. It’s Designed. We stand at a global inflection point: algorithmic media distorts truth, institutions erode under complexity, and automation challenges the very relevance of human agency. This book is your invitation to upgrade your mind, ignite your cognitive immune system, and participate in the co-creation of a wiser civilization. 🧠 What Is the IE-OS? The IE-OS is a multi-layered cognitive and civic ...

Pragmatic yet ambitious, A Categorical Defense of Our Future offers a cutting-edge mental framework based on the union of categorical mathematics and art that can help engineers, business leaders, and other ambitious individuals better understand and manipulate the complex systems prevailing in today’s increasingly connected world.

The Number One international bestseller featuring contributions from Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Ryan Holiday, Alison Gopnik, Howard Gardner, Antonio Damasio, and Aaron James. ‘We need books like this one’ Steven Pinker Stupidity is all around us, from the colleagues who won’t stop...

You are certain you remember it correctly. The quote. The logo. The spelling. The scene. And yet—millions of people remember it the same way you do… and it still isn’t right. That jolt of confusion is the doorway into the Mandela Effect, one of the most unsettling—and revealing—phenomena of modern culture. A Simple Guide to The Mandela Effect: Why Millions Remember the Same Wrong Thing takes you through that doorway and shows you what’s really happening inside your mind, online communities, and shared memory itself. This is not a book of cheap mysteries or sensational claims. ...

Human reasoning is remarkably shallow - in fact, our thinking and justifications just scratch the surface of the true complexity of the issues we deal with. The ability to think may still be the greatest wonder in the world (and beyond), but the way that individuals think is less than ideal. In...

A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This "bigger mind" - human and machine capabilities working together - has the potential to solve the great challenges of our time. So why do smart technologies not automatically lead to smart results?