大脑是底层第一性原理的化身
解决人性问题的过程，就是“重构大脑神经元网络”的过程。
作为改变本性的一个庞大工程，重构大脑，需要我们建立起底层能量对人性的规定性的深刻理解，这是起点。
人性是宇宙最复杂的问题，一切必须根据大脑原理设计，由此才可以建构起有效的解决方案。
生命以“负熵为食”的结构化过程正好违背宇宙的自发趋向，于是，要维护结构，就必须依靠能力从外界获得能量。但是能量在不断衰变，结构得不断提升能力才能获得足够维护生存的能量。结果，能量的单向衰变导出了万物演化的单向强化，而人类的大脑以及有它而形成的共同体就是这个演化到终末阶段的最强结构。
于是，大脑成为解开一切人性难题的关键点。
大脑是底层第一性原理的化身，是能量作用下万物演化到人类的体现，因此一切人性都可以在大脑里面找到答案。
这本书的目标，就是全面的，深刻地看懂底层的这股强大的控制力量对一切人性的规定性，最终升起对自我本性的时刻警惕与审视之心，以这样的基本意识来时刻敦促我们保持精进，保持觉察与编码，最终实现重构大脑网络，从而改变人生的目的。

这不是一部哲学史导论，也不是脑筋急转弯的哲学入门；它以“人是什么”的问题为起点，以现代科学研究成果为工具，探讨人的认知、伦理、信仰、自由和爱的意义等我们在生命里终究要面对的重要课题。
《我是谁？》的一大特色是极少使用哲学专门术语，也很少直接引用哲学著作。作者是要借用哲学以外的知识来阐述哲学问题，介绍重要的哲学学说。他的博学造就了一本令哲学界引以为荣的入门书。
——林正弘，东吴大学哲学系教授
当您阅读这本书的时候，您已经走出了迈向幸福的第一步。…… 这本书让人无法拒绝。
——埃尔克•海登莱希（Elke Heidenreich），德国知名评论家，媒体工作者
（这本书）为我们填补对芸芸众生无法完全一目了然的知识提供了一种引导性的帮助。
——《索林根晨报》（Solinger Morgenpost）
一部美妙的、辉煌的作品！
——马库斯•兰茨（Markus Lanz），德国电视二台主持人及媒体人
欢快、诙谐并且通俗易懂。
——《奥伯迈恩日报》（Obermain-Tagblatt）
想成就一本畅销的哲学书，简直比骆驼穿过针眼还难？错！这本书证明这个论断错了！从来没有一本哲学实用书可以像它一样厉害！
——《汉堡晚报》（Hamburger Abendblatt）

A groundbreaking exploration of the neuroscience of spirituality and a bold new paradigm for health, healing, and resilience—from a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning researcher

“A new revolution of health and well-being and a testament to, and celebration of, the power within.”—Deepak Chopra, MD

Whether it’s meditation or a walk in nature, reading a sacred text or saying a prayer, there are many ways to tap into a heightened awareness of the world around you and your place in it. In The Awakened Brain, psychologist Dr. Lisa Miller shows you how. 
 
Weaving her own deeply personal journey of awakening with her groundbreaking research, Dr. Miller’s book reveals that humans are universally equipped with a capacity for spirituality, and that our brains become more resilient and robust as a result of it. For leaders in business and government, truth-seekers, parents, healers, educators, and any person confronting life’s biggest questions, The Awakened Brain combines cutting-edge science (from MRI studies to genetic research, epidemiology, and more) with on-the-ground application for people of all ages and from all walks of life, illuminating the surprising science of spirituality and how to engage it in our lives:  
 
• The awakened decision is the better decision. With an awakened perception, we are more creative, collaborative, ethical, and innovative.
• The awakened brain is the healthier brain. An engaged spiritual life enhances grit, optimism, and resilience while providing insulation against addiction, trauma, and depression. 
• The awakened life is the inspired life. Loss, uncertainty, and even trauma are the gateways by which we are invited to move beyond merely coping with hardship to transcend into a life of renewal, healing, joy, and fulfillment.

Absorbing, uplifting, and ultimately enlightening, The Awakened Brain is a conversation-starting saga of scientific discovery packed with counterintuitive findings and practical advice on concrete ways to access your innate spirituality and build a life of meaning and contribution.

An extraordinary memoir about the cutting-edge brain therapy that dramatically changed the life and mind of John Elder Robison, the New York Times bestselling author of Look Me in the Eye

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST

Imagine spending the first forty years of your life in darkness, blind to the emotions and social signals of other people. Then imagine that someone suddenly switches the lights on.

It has long been assumed that people living with autism are born with the diminished ability to read the emotions of others, even as they feel emotion deeply. But what if we’ve been wrong all this time? What if that “missing” emotional insight was there all along, locked away and inaccessible in the mind?

In 2007 John Elder Robison wrote the international bestseller Look Me in the Eye, a memoir about growing up with Asperger’s syndrome. Amid the blaze of publicity that followed, he received a unique invitation: Would John like to take part in a study led by one of the world’s foremost neuroscientists, who would use an experimental new brain therapy known as TMS, or transcranial magnetic stimulation, in an effort to understand and then address the issues at the heart of autism? Switched On is the extraordinary story of what happened next.

Having spent forty years as a social outcast, misreading others’ emotions or missing them completely, John is suddenly able to sense a powerful range of feelings in other people. However, this newfound insight brings unforeseen problems and serious questions. As the emotional ground shifts beneath his feet, John struggles with the very real possibility that choosing to diminish his disability might also mean sacrificing his unique gifts and even some of his closest relationships. Switched On is a real-life Flowers for Algernon, a fascinating and intimate window into what it means to be neurologically different, and what happens when the world as you know it is upended overnight.

Praise for Switched On

“An eye-opening book with a radical message . . . The transformations [Robison] undergoes throughout the book are astonishing—as foreign and overwhelming as if he woke up one morning with the visual range of a bee or the auditory prowess of a bat.”—The New York Times

“Astonishing, brave . . . reads like a medical thriller and keeps you wondering what will happen next . . . [Robison] takes readers for a ride through the thorny thickets of neuroscience and leaves us wanting more.”—The Washington Post

“Fascinating for its insights into Asperger’s and research, this engrossing record will make readers reexamine their preconceptions about this syndrome and the future of brain manipulation.”—Booklist

“Like books by Andrew Solomon and Oliver Sacks, Switched On offers an opportunity to consider mental processes through a combination of powerful narrative and informative medical context.”—BookPage

“A mind-blowing book that will force you to ask deep questions about what is important in life. Would normalizing the brains of those who think differently reduce their motivation for great achievement?”—Temple Grandin, author of The Autistic Brain

“At the heart of Switched On are fundamental questions of who we are, of where our identity resides, of difference and disability and free will, which are brought into sharp focus by Robison’s lived experience.”—Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Effect

这本书是认知心理学领域的一本经典著作。
作者通过对人类经验的主要领域进行解读，如记忆、信念、语言、幸福等，展现了我们生活中很多的认知缺陷都与“进化惯性”有关。如：
为何人们经常会忘记刚刚发生的事情？
为何金钱买不到幸福？
为何领导者通常坚持错误的决定？
……
他向读者清晰地阐释了“进化惯性”，说明大脑的进化本来就是不完美的。
面对不完美进化，作为思想者的人类，是否就真的束手无策？显然不是这样。
作者在文中也建设性地提及了应对方法，改善我们的认知缺陷，从而战胜我们内在的健忘、焦虑、混乱、拖延……进而改善我们自身和我们的社会。
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【编辑推荐】
1.作者师从史蒂芬·平克（TED演讲人、世界超级语言学家和认知心理学家），23岁就获得了麻省理工大学的博士学位，他从人类大脑进化的视角提供出了认知心理学的独特视角。
2.渐忘、焦虑、混乱、拖延……是我们生活中经常面临到的困扰。作者通过著作向读者清晰地阐释了“进化惯性”，说明大脑的进化本来就是不完美的。面对不完美进化，作为思想者的人类，并不是束手无策，而是可以区分出哪些缺陷是可以置之不理，哪些是可以改善的。
3.作者在文中建设性地提及了应对方法，改善我们的认知缺陷，从而战胜我们内在的健忘、焦虑、混乱、拖延……进而改善我们自身和我们的社会。

As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, this mind-expanding dive into the mystery of consciousness is an illuminating meditation on the self, free will, and felt experience.
What is consciousness? How does it arise? And why does it exist? We take our experience of being in the world for granted. But the very existence of consciousness raises profound questions: Why would any collection of matter in the universe be conscious? How are we able to think about this? And why should we?
In this wonderfully accessible book, Annaka Harris guides us through the evolving definitions, philosophies, and scientific findings that probe our limited understanding of consciousness. Where does it reside, and what gives rise to it? Could it be an illusion, or a universal property of all matter? As we try to understand consciousness, we must grapple with how to define it and, in the age of artificial intelligence, who or what might possess it.
Conscious offers lively and challenging arguments that alter our ideas about consciousness--allowing us to think freely about it for ourselves, if indeed we can.