----Ron Nicholson's recommended book and reading list:
( with some 4 and 5 star review rankings ) MindReal: How the Mind Creates its Own Virtual Reality by Robert Ornstein , 2008 ISBN: 193377939X ***** (five stars) Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb , 2012 ISBN: 1400067820 ***** Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain by Michael S. Gazzaniga , 2012 ISBN: 9780061906107 ***** Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don't by George Lakoff , 1996 ISBN: 0226467961 ***** A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell , 1988 ISBN: 0688079512 ***** The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen , 1997 ISBN: 0875845851 ***** Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert , 2006 ISBN: 1400042666 ***** Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain by Antonio R. Damasio , 1994 ISBN: 0380726475 *****