Consciousness, Identity, & Neurodiversity Reading List

Here’s some works, fiction and non-fiction, related to consciousness, identity, and neurodiversity that I particularly appreciate.

Papers & Articles

• “If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious”, Eric Schwitzgebel
• “Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness”, Keith Frankish
• “The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization”, Erik Hoel
• “Mental illness, attention deficit disorder, and suffering”, Mark Dominus
• “We Still Don’t Know How to Talk About Kanye”, Erica Schwiegershausen
• “Accidentally Autistic: The Queen’s Gambit”, Val Neil
• “The Crying of Lot 55: The Unsolved Mysteries and Alternate Realities of Andrew W.K.”, Michael Nelson
• “What Happened to Lee?: The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder”, Sandra Upson
• “Feedback is all you need… for agency to emerge”, Gordon Brander

Longform Nonfiction & Documentaries

• Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness, Patrick House
• Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age, Sanjay Gupta
• NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, Steve Silberman
• The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005)

Novels

• The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Ubik, Philip K. Dick
• The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler
• The Kiss Quotient, Helen Hoang
• The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

Other Fiction

• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Perfect Blue (1997)
• Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
• The Rehearsal + “What IS Nathan Fielder?”, Super Eyepatch Wolf
• Serial Experiments Lain