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The User Illusion

Tor Nørretranders

  • 467 pages · about 8 hours
  • First published 1998
  • 2 editions
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1 About this book

The author asserts that "what our consciousness rejects constitutes the most valuable part of ourselves," and that "we have to get outside and live life fully with all our senses to experience it more fully."

Good for readers who want: brain science and a long read.

  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Consciousness
  • Subconsciousness
  • Human information processing
  • Physiological aspects
  • Brain
  • Brain, research
  • Intellect

2 About Tor Nørretranders

Born 1955

Tor Nørretranders (born 20 June 1955) is a Danish author of popular science. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. His books and lectures have primarily been focused on popular science and its role in society, often with Nørretranders' own advice about how society should integrate new findings in popular science. He introduced the notion of exformation in his book The User Illusion.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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