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 ""What to do with too much information is the great riddle of our time." 
Theodore Zeldin, An Intimate History of Humanity"
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recommended reading:

Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human by Paul Bloom (2004). Lively speculation from a leading researcher.

Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence by Andy Clark (2003). Clark asks whether intelligence is bounded by our skulls or is part of the tools and technologies we use.

Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence Deacon (1997). A dizzying, provocative integration of information across different disciplines.

Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett (1991). Psychologically informed philosophy. Consciousness isn't explained by the end, but it's a fun ride along the way.

Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing by Richard Gregory (1966). Erudite and good-humoreda classic introduction to vision.

The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris (1998). The Evolutionary Psychology of child development, a great read that challenges the assumption that parents are the most important influence in a child's life. See also the web site at: http://home.att.net/~xchar/tna.

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life by Steven Johnson (2004). How the latest developments in brain science and technology inform our individual self-understanding.

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker (1995). Compelling argument for our innate language ability and brain structure being reflected in each other.

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V. S. Ramachandran & Sandra Blakeslee (1998). Tales of what brain injury can tell us about the way the brain works.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks (1995). Informative and humane anecdotes about patients with different kinds of brain damage.

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"Have you ever found yourself in a confrontational mood for no reason? It could come down to what you've been reading."
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