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24 alternatives to The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size

"Finally, a book that really does explain consciousness."

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   How To Create A Mind▲67

   An explanation of how computers will reach consciousness

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us▲63

   Our minds don’t work the way we think they do.

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Subliminal▲64

   How your unconscious mind rules your behavior

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   The Origin of Consciousness▲61

   The breakdown of the bicameral mind

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   The Branded Mind▲57

   What neuroscience really tells us about the brain

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Free Will▲59

   What is consciousness? Can science help us find an answer?

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Blinkist - 1: Is That Even a Thing?▲68

   A digest of four books about brains

   2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   The Brain Fog Fix▲73

   Reclaim your focus

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Dark Matter of the Mind▲67

   The Culturally Articulated Unconscious

   2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Who's in Charge?▲62

    Free-will and the science of the brain

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole▲67

    Extraordinary journeys into the human brain

    2016 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Eye and Brain▲61

    The psychology of perception

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Don't Make Me Think▲83

    A book about human-computer interaction and web usability

    2015 · sensible.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Will VR make us better humans?▲105

    An illustrated explainer, from Hardbound.

    2016 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Iconoclast▲60

    A neuroscientist reveals how to think differently

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind ▲65

    A glimpse inside the minds of highly creative people

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Invisible Influence▲66

    The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior

    2016 · amazon.ca · its alternatives →

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    Predictably Irrational▲96

    The hidden forces that shape our decisions

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Invisible Influence▲69

    The hidden forces that shape behavior

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Making Ideas Happen▲75

    Overcoming the obstacles between vision and reality

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    How not to be wrong: the power of mathematical thinking▲70

    The hidden beauty and logic of the world

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    How to Create a Mind▲3

    An explanation of how computers will reach consciousness

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Deep Simplicity▲62

    Chaos, complexity and the emergence of life

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Lying▲64

    An analysis to the human capacity to lie

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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