A group of men discussed the book "Being You" by the neuroscientist Anil Seth. The book is about ideas and research to try to understand how our minds come to be. It is a slippery and mysterious subject. It isn't totally clear just where in us our minds reside. I was surprised at how many titles I have read that relate to the subject. I think maybe the most helpful source has been the TED talk by Anil Seth that explains our mind as a helpful hallucination produced by the brain: (a Firefox shortened link)
Books and issues that came up include
The Three Pound Universe - Hooper and Teresi
Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer - Pelletier
The Brain that Changes Itself - Doidge
My Stroke of Insight - Jill Bolte Taylor
Soft-wired - Merzenich
Cure - Marchant
The Cure Within - Harrington
She Has Her Mother's Laugh - Zimmer
Similarity and differences of siblings and twins
Cognitive growth and deterioration
Memory
Emotions
Attention
