Three that I recommend for those who’d like to study this topic in detail are Irreducible Mind, a comprehensive review of the many challenges to prevailing mechanistic ideas about consciousness;18 One Mind, which lays out in exquisite detail why the notion of a single, collective mind has been taken very seriously by many scientists and scholars;19 and Beyond Physicalism, which makes a persuasive case that today’s neuroscience assumption that consciousness is a meaningless side effect of “meat machines” (that is, us), is evidently wrong.
