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