Will they please stop publishing great books!

What a fantastic book:

Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Hardcover)
by Jonah Lehrer (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/Proust-Was-Ne...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203182761&sr=8-1

I was thrown out of Borders not realizing it was closed I was so enthralled.

A rarity for me, an investment book, but one of such titanic proportions to the average investor in todays quantitative world that it is an absolutely must read. Don't let the word DayTrader on the cover dissuade you if you are an investor:

The New Day Trader Advantage (Hardcover)
by Jon Markman (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/New-Day-Trade...d_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203182851&sr=1-1

nitro
 
be much more helpful if you'd give a personal account or synopsis of what you find so compelling in each book that you'd recommend it. nothing much simply a paragraph ..
 
Mindful Universe: Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer (The Frontiers Collection) by Henry P. Stapp (Hardcover - Jul 20, 2007)

http://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Unive...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206891879&sr=8-1

This book is the rightful successor to Penrose famous book on the problem of concious/mind arising from matter, and that classical physics cannot explain how mind arises from brain.

http://www.amazon.com/Emperors-New-...bs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206891568&sr=8-2

Imo, the thesis of this book by Stapp is even more convincing than the effort taken by Penrose.

I have always believed that human children have no mind, only brain with capacity for mind. What happens is parents/other concious beings are able to bootstrap the collapse of a wavefunction so that a child can sustain that wavefunction collapse on their own (wave function collapse may be nothing more than attention through language - of course, that is a lot of handwaving), thereby achieving sustained conciousness on their own. How this happens is a mystery. What is even more fascinating is, when did humans notice that they could collapse a childs wavefunction by teaching it to talk/communicate? Which came first, wave collapse or language? Did some ancient monkey's wave function collapse accidentally one day and became the first true human? Did they evolve together? What happens when we sleep, or how are we able to regain our mind when we shut our mind down? If a child is raised by wolves, is he concious when he grows up?

"Dave, will I dream?" - HAL 9000 "computer" in 2001 Space Odyssey before being turned off.

http://www.amazon.com/2001-Odyssey-...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206892285&sr=8-1

nitro
 
Great thread. Nitro would you mind to give book titles (or a different link) to your recomendations that that are links to synctrading.com? I can't seem to get those links (the amazon ones are fine) to work at all. Thanks
 
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Great thread. Nitro would you mind to give book titles (or a different link) to your recomendations that that are links to synctrading.com? I can't seem to get those links (the amazon ones are fine) to work at all. Thanks
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Thanks.

Ugh, I forgot that some of the links were to my site. I tried to upgrade to the new version of linux and I trashed MySQL, which drives the forum software I use. I haven't got the time to fix it.

Give me a couple of days.

nitro
 
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