books and articles

(1906) The Integrative Action of the Nervous System -- by Charles Sherrington

(1919) The Elementary Nervous System -- by G.H. Parker

(1928) The Basis of Sensation -- by Edgar Adrian

(1932) The Mechanism of Nervous Action --  by Edgar Adrian

(1957) The Strategy of the Genes  -- by C.H. Waddington

(1976) Cellular Basis of Behaviour -- by Eric R. Kandel

(1986) The Vital Force: A Study of Bioenergetics -- by Franklin M. Harold

(1992) Tree of Knowledge: Biological Roots of Human Understanding -- by Humberto Maturana and Francisco J. Varela

(1993) The Origins of Order -- by Stuart A. Kauffman

(1994) The Quark and the Jaguar -- by Gell-Mann M

(1998) The Touchstone of Life: Molecular Information, Cell Communication, and the Foundations of Life -- by Werner R. Loewenstein

(2003) Genetic Medicine: A Logic of Disease -- by Barton Childs

(2006) The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma -- by Marc Kirschner and John Gerhart

(2006) Life: An Introduction to Complex Systems Biology  -- by Kunihiko Kaneko

(2015) Principles of Neural Design -- by Peter Sterling, Simon Laughlin

(2015) Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life -- by Nick Lane​

(2017) Scale -- by Geoffrey West

(2018) Innate -- by Kevin Mitchell​​​

(2020) What Is Health?: Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design -- by Peter Sterling

(2024) Evolutionary Cell Biology: The Origins of Cellular Architecture -- by Michael R. Lynch

(1997) Electrical Properties of Cells -- by Louis J. DeFelice

(1995) Understanding Nonlinear Dynamics -- by Daniel Kaplan , Leon Glass

​(2001) Ionic Channels of Excitable Membranes -- by Bertil Hille

(2007) Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience -- by Eugene M. Izhikevich

(2010) Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World -- by David Easley, Jon Kleinberg

(2012) Principles of Bioenergetics -- by Vladimir P. Skulachev , Alexander V. Bogachev , Felix O. Kasparinsky

(2013) Understanding Advanced Statistical Methods -- by Kevin S. S. Henning and Peter H. Westfall

(2015) Network Science -- by Albert-László Barabási

(2016) Deep Learning -- by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville

(2018) Networks -- by Mark Newman

(2019) Cellular Biophysics and Modeling -- by Greg Conradi Smith

(2019) Data-Driven Science and Engineering -- by Steven Brunton and Nathan Kutz

(2020) Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach -- by Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig

(2020) Graph Representation Learning -- by William L. Hamilton

(2025) A Computer Scientist's Guide to Cell Biology -- by William W. Cohen and Charles K. Cohen

(2026) Data-Driven Modeling & Scientific Computation: Methods for Complex Systems & Big Data -- by Nathan Kutz

(2026) Optimization: A Bootcamp for Machine Learning, Inverse Problems, and Control -- by Steven Brunton

(1992) The Music of Life: Biology beyond the Genome -- by Denis Noble

(1994) Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain -- by Antonio Damasio

(2016) Dance to the Tune of Life: Biological Relativity -- by Denis Noble

(2021) Feeling and Knowing: Making Minds Conscious -- by Antonio Damasio

Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution -- by Nick Lane

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers -- by Robert Sapolsky

The Deep History of Ourselves -- by Joseph LeDoux

The Story of the Human Body Evolution, Health, and Disease -- by Daniel Lieberman

Exercised -- by Daniel Lieberman

Evolution Gone Wrong -- by Alexander Bezzerides

Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain  -- by Lisa Feldman Barrett

The Song of the Cell -- by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Laws of Medicine -- by Siddhartha Mukherjee​

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity -- by: Peter Attia

The Longevity Diet -- by Valter Longo

Brain Energy -- by Christopher M. Palmer MD

Nature Wants Us to Be Fat -- by Richard J. Johnson MD​​

Blueprint -- by Robert Plomin

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons -- by: Sam Kean

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog -- by Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz

Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness -- by Anne Harrington

No One Cares About Crazy People -- by Ron Powers​

A Series of Fortunate Events -- by: Sean B. Carroll​

Ignorance: How It Drives Science -- by Stuart Firestein

Out of Your Mind -- by Alan Watts

Waking up -- by Sam Harris

Making Sense -- by Sam Harris

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are -- by Alan Watts​​​​

No self, no problem -- by Anam Thubten

Shift into Freedom -- by Loch Kelly

On Having No Head  -- by Douglas Edison Harding​

Why Buddhism is True: The science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment  -- by Robert Wright

The Happiness Hypothesis -- by Jonathan Haidt​

One Blade of Grass -- by Henry Shukman

In Love with the World -- by: Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and Helen Tworkov​

Into the Magic Shop -- by James R. Doty MD

The Craving Mind -- by Judson Brewer​​

The Embodied Mind -- by Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch​

A Guide to the Good Life -- by William B. Irvine

The Stoic Challenge -- by William B. Irvine​

Man's Search for Meaning  -- by Viktor E. Frankl​​​

How to Change Your Mind -- by Michael Pollan

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind -- by Yuval Noah Harari

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow -- by Yuval Noah Harari​​

21 Lessons for the 21st Century -- by Yuval Noah Harari​

Mastery -- by Robert Greene

12 rules for life: An antidote to chaos  -- by Jordan B. Peterson

Principles: Life and Work -- by Ray Dalio

Loewenstein WR. Biological transducers. Scientific American. 1960 Aug 1;203(2):98-111. 

Cook ND, Carvalho GB, Damasio A. From membrane excitability to metazoan psychology. Trends in neurosciences. 2014 Dec 1;37(12):698-705.

Goaillard JM, Marder E. Ion channel degeneracy, variability, and covariation in neuron and circuit resilience. Annual review of neuroscience. 2021 Jul 8;44(1):335-57.

Marom S, Marder E. A biophysical perspective on the resilience of neuronal excitability across timescales. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 2023 Oct;24(10):640-52.

Lazebnik Y. Can a biologist fix a radio?—Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis. Cancer cell. 2002 Sep 1;2(3):179-82.

Lander AD. The edges of understanding. BMC biology. 2010 Apr 12;8(1):40.

Ross LN. Dynamical models and explanation in neuroscience. Philosophy of Science. 2015 Jan;82(1):32-54.

Huang S. Non-genetic heterogeneity of cells in development: more than just noise. Development. 2009 Dec 1;136(23):3853-62.

Huang S. Reprogramming cell fates: reconciling rarity with robustness. Bioessays. 2009 May;31(5):546-60.

Huang S. Systems biology of stem cells: three useful perspectives to help overcome the paradigm of linear pathways. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2011 Aug 12;366(1575):2247.

Kaneko K. Characterization of stem cells and cancer cells on the basis of gene expression profile stability, plasticity, and robustness: dynamical systems theory of gene expressions under cell‐cell interaction explains mutational robustness of differentiated cells and suggests how cancer cells emerge. Bioessays. 2011 Jun;33(6):403-13.

Huang S. The molecular and mathematical basis of Waddington's epigenetic landscape: A framework for post‐Darwinian biology?. Bioessays. 2012 Feb;34(2):149-57.

Rosati B, McKinnon D. Structural and regulatory evolution of cellular electrophysiological systems. Evolution & development. 2009 Sep;11(5):610-8.

Tawfik DS. Messy biology and the origins of evolutionary innovations. Nature chemical biology. 2010 Oct;6(10):692-6.

Koonin EV, Wolf YI. Constraints and plasticity in genome and molecular-phenome evolution. Nature Reviews Genetics. 2010 Jul;11(7):487-98.

Jékely G, Keijzer F, Godfrey-Smith P. An option space for early neural evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2015 Dec 19;370(1684):20150181.

Liebeskind BJ, Hofmann HA, Hillis DM, Zakon HH. Evolution of animal neural systems. Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics. 2017 Nov 2;48:377-98.

Wan KY, Jékely G. Origins of eukaryotic excitability. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2021 Jan 25;376(1820):20190758.

Lupski JR, Belmont JW, Boerwinkle E, Gibbs RA. Clan genomics and the complex architecture of human disease. Cell. 2011 Sep 30;147(1):32-43.

Chakravarti A, Turner TN. Revealing rate‐limiting steps in complex disease biology: The crucial importance of studying rare, extreme‐phenotype families. Bioessays. 2016 Jun;38(6):578-86.

Boyle EA, Li YI, Pritchard JK. An expanded view of complex traits: from polygenic to omnigenic. Cell. 2017 Jun 15;169(7):1177-86.

Hekselman I, Yeger-Lotem E. Mechanisms of tissue and cell-type specificity in heritable traits and diseases. Nature Reviews Genetics. 2020 Mar;21(3):137-50.