Daniel Dennett's Kinds of Minds is most definitely worth reading. It has several ideas of surprising insight, including the connection between mind and pain, and the division of minds to Darwinian, Skinnerian, Popperian and Gregorian, based on their capacity to learn, adapt, and manipulate their environment.
Another notion I have not seen anywhere else: our minds are very much "not in our minds": since we have learned to write, and to create an environment of symbols (traffic signs, manuals, warnings), we "externalise" symbols that we'd otherwise would need to keep in mind.
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