Consciousness, Identity, & Neurodiversity Reading List

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

Non-Fiction

• “If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious”, Eric Schwitzgebel
• “Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness”, Keith Frankish
• NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, Steve Silberman
• “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
• The Rehearsal / “What IS Nathan Fielder?”, Super Eyepatch Wolf

Fiction

• Everything Everywhere All At Once
• The Devil and Daniel Johnston
• Perfect Blue
• The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler
• The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Kiss Quotient, Helen Hoang
• The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
• “Exhalation”, Ted Chiang