Consciousness, Identity, & Neurodiversity Reading List
Here’s some works, fiction and non-fiction, related to consciousness, identity, and neurodiversity that I particularly appreciate.
Consciousness
- “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
- Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness, Patrick House
- The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin
- Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age, Sanjay Gupta
- “Exhalation”, Ted Chiang
- The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler
Identity
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Perfect Blue
- “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
- “What Happened to Lee?: The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder”, Sandra Upson
Neurodiversity
- 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
- Nanette
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- The Devil and Daniel Johnston
- The Kiss Quotient, Helen Hoang
- The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson