It’s getting towards the end of the year and I noticed I’ve neglected my Reading List page for this year. So I spent some time catching up.
It’s interesting to look back and see how I’ve divided my time between genre fiction, literature and non-fiction over the year. Lots of audiobooks this year, slowing down a bit in the second half once I’d run through Stephen King’s, Blake Crouch’s, and Hugh Howey’s big works.
I’ve long called this website by personal journal and the intellectual journey is well documented by the reading list. I’ve become interested in how we come to construct our beliefs and our perception of self by reading books in both Neuroscience and what is basically the anthropology of religious belief. It may be that as my intellectual memoir about how I came to understand how people make decisions that my next will be about coming to an understanding of belief and construction of self. It’s an idea that was central to Bateson’s understanding in The Ecology of Mind (see here and here).
One of the reasons why I caught up with the Reading page is what I think will be a need for an annotated bibliography for the manuscript in progress. Plus, as I map out some Substack topics, I realize that, although I see that I’ve mentioned these ideas here over the years, I’ve never provided simple exposition. This is something I hope to remedy over time.