Igor Aleksander - How to Build a Mind

This is repost from LJ

Igor Aleksander is a South-African-born British engineer and cybernetist. At the time of writing this book, he was a Professor of Neural Engineering Systems at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London. The main theme of this book is what is consciousness and can we build a conscious machine.
( Not building terminators )

Eric R. Kandel - In Search of Memory (2006)

Eric R. Kandel is an Austrian-born Jewish-American neurologist and Nobel laureate. This books is his sort of an autobiography and memoir of research he has taken part of. His interest in psychoanalysis lead to research in neurological basis of memory.
( Life, neurology, psychology and money )