What a great question! The book that got me into neuroscience was Phantoms in the Brain by V. S Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee. A 22-year old book that wowe

What a great question! The book that got me into neuroscience was Phantoms in the Brain by V. S Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee. A 22-year old book that wowed 20-year-old me. Principles of Neural Design by Peter Sterling and Simon Laughlin is a more recent book. It is brilliant, beautifully written and probably should be required reading for anyone looking to do graduate studies in neuroscience. In a field inundated with data and siloes and jargon, it bats for a focus on jargon-free understanding of principles that can explain much of the complexity. It was hugely inspirational for us when doing our own book (plug alert!). I hope that Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos, a book I co-authored, a book which drew inspiration from these two books, is able to do the same for many looking to study neuroscience and AI now. Phantoms in the Brain https://www.amazon.com/Phantoms-Brain-Probing-Mysteries-Human/dp/0688172172/ https://www.amazon.com/Phantoms-Brain-Probing-Mysteries-Huma... Principles of Neural Design https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Design-MIT-Press/dp/0262534681/ https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Design-MIT-Press/dp... Journey of the Mind https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Mind-Thinking-Emerged-Chaos/dp/B09M2WCW72/ https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Mind-Thinking-Emerged-Chaos/d...