{"id":2595,"date":"2012-09-08T17:55:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T17:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2025-06-04T20:51:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T20:51:26","slug":"cognition-and-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/cognition-and-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognition and Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I have tried to separate the &#8216;archive&#8217; into lists of books that are sort of related in subject matter. The books in this list are all about cognition, psychology and associated subjects. That said, there is still an element of the arbitrary, in that whatever classification is chosen it is inevitable that some books fall in more than one &#8211; which is where the tags come in handy for the main list.<\/p>\n<p>These are merely a list of books that I would recommend &#8211; it is not a complete list. I intend to add to this list as and when I get inspiration and, as a rule of thumb, the nearer the top of the list a book appears the more important I rate it &#8211; but that is not an absolute rule.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases I will create, at a later date, an individual post for some of the books here (and will then delete them from this list).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance \" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/zenmcm.jpg\" alt=\"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance \" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"I Am a Strange Loop \" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/strangeloop.jpg\" alt=\"I Am a Strange Loop \" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"Thinking, Fast and Slow\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/fastandslow.jpg\" alt=\"Thinking, Fast and Slow\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/godelescherbach.jpg\" alt=\"Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"The Invisible Gorilla\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/invisiblegorilla.jpg\" alt=\"The Invisible Gorilla\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"A Mind of Its Own\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/mindofitsown.jpg\" alt=\"A Mind of Its Own\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"The Ego Trick\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/egotrick.jpg\" alt=\"The Ego Trick\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"How Many Friends Does One Person Need\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/howmanyfriends.jpg\" alt=\"How Many Friends Does One Person Need\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"The Self Illusion: Why There is No You Inside Your Head\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/selfillusion.jpg\" alt=\"The Self Illusion: Why There is No You Inside Your Head\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/redirect.jpg\" alt=\"Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"Cognitive Psychology\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/cognitivepsychology.jpg\" alt=\"Cognitive Psychology\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"The Mind's I\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/mindsi.jpg\" alt=\"The Mind's I\" height=\"160px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[79,103,119],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","tag-cognition","tag-philosophical","tag-worldview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}