Miscellaneous

Music

I am passionate about music and continuously updating playlists on Spotify and Youtube. 

Books

I am also passionate about books. Here's a sample of books I would recommend reading if interested in these topics.

Neuroscience

• The Self-Assembling Brain: How Neural Networks Grow Smarter by Peter Robin Hiesinger

• Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain by Antonio Damasio

• Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety by Joseph LeDoux

• The Emotional Brain by Joseph LeDoux

• In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric Kandel

• Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are by Kevin Mitchell

Artificial Intelligence

• Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell

Physics

• When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

• Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn: A Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing, and the Beginning of Everything by Amanda Gefter

• What is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker

• Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World by Tobias Hürter and David Shaw

• Boltzmann's Atom: The Great Debate that Launched a Revolution in Physics by David Lindley

Evolution, Culture and Behavior

• Optimally Irrational: The Good Reasons We Behave the Way We Do by Lionel Page

• Hidden Games by Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli

• The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve by Clark Barrett

• The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich

• Tyneside Neighbourhoods: Deprivation, Social Life and Social Behaviour in One British City by Daniel Nettle

• Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe by Hugo Mercier

• Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry by Randy Nesse

• A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species by Robert Boyd

• Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite - Evolution and the Modular Mind by Robert Kurzban

• The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich

Mind and Consciousness

• The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness by Mark Solms

• The Ego Trick by Julian Baggini

• Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts by Stanislas Dehaene

Cognitive Science

• Experiencing the Impossible: The Science of Magic by Gustav Kuhn

Biology

• The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer by Athena Aktipis

• The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language by John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary

Philosophy of Science

•  The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan