[Updates] Fwd: more suggested readings

[Andrew Stone]

Have you read something that you'd recommend? Please let us know!

Gareth has a nice list below.

Andrew Stone @twittelator
http://stone.com


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> From: Gareth Harris <garethharris at mac.com>
> Date: October 28, 2015 at 1:08:13 PM MDT
> To: Andrew Stone <andrew at stone.com>
> Subject: more suggested readings
> 
> Andrew, here are some more suggested readings, distribute if you want:
> 
> ===
> BOOKLIST - suggested readings
>  addendum 2015-10-28 - —  Gareth Harris - garethharris at mac.com
>         some were used in SentimentalStargazer.com
> ======================================
> 
> The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge by William Poundstone - uses cellular automata to explain some concepts of physics
> 
> The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazier - the 1900 classic on comparative religion
> 
> Brains And Computers by Tuck Newport - short quantitative comparison
> 
> Higher Intelligence: How to Create a Functional Artificial Brain by Peter A J van der Made - AI techniques
> 
> The Omega Upgrade - A Short Story by Raima Larter - fiction about society changes
> 
> Sapiens: A Real History of Humankind by Yuval Nora Harari - human evolution
> 
> An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of the Mind by Ian Glynn - multidisciplinary tour of workings of the brain
> 
> Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling by Allen B. Downey - tour of complexity algorithms using python
> 
> The Amoeba in the Room: Lives of the Microbes by Nicholas P. Money - folksy microbiology how microbes are what’s important
> 
> Myths to Live By (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell Book 1)
> The Power of Myth
> The Hero With A Thousand Faces 
> all by Joseph Campbell - all must reads by Campbell
> 
> Creation: How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself by Adam Rutherford - from evolution to synthetic biology
> 
> The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future by Martin Ford - social effects of accelerating computer technology
> 
> The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert - the next coming mass extinction
> 
> The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates by Howard Bloom - how does an inanimate universe generate stunning new forms and unbelievable new powers without a Creator?
> 
> Cybernetics: Second Edition: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Weiner - the classic from 1948 with 2013 addendum
> 
> The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon - the classic information theory paper
> 
> The Meaning of Human Existence by E O Wilson - origin and destiny of humans by famous biologist also see:
> Life on Earth - a survey of biology
> 
> Pale Blue Dot
> Cosmos
> Dragons of Eden
> Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
> Contact
> etc by Carl Sagan
> 
> A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram - large scale exploration of cellular automata
> 
> Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R Hofstadter - the classic exploration of cognitive science
> 
> Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler - the now classic tome about nanotechnology and society
> 
> Rare Earth by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee - many expect thousands of civilizations to be discovered - this book reaches the opposite conclusion
> 
> River Out Of Eden by Richard Dawkins - explanation of genetic evolution
> 
> The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick - into to information for the public,but good reading
> 
> ======================================
> 
> OTHER BOOKS AND URLS:
> 
> The Evolution of the Eukaryotes  -
> - http://www.world-builders.org/lessons/less/les4/eukaryotes.html
> 
> The Evolution of the Earliest Cells - 
> 	• https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/diakelly/150/cells.pdf
> 
> Philosophy of Mind: Brains, Consciousness, and Thinking Machines by Patrick Grimm
>  - an excellent course downloadable from: thegreatcourses.com
> 
> 
> ======================================
> ALSO see these classics:
> 
> Bruner: A Study of Thinking, 1956, perhaps dated now, but a good starting point.
> 
> Pinker:        The Language Instinct
>                     the blank slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
>                     How the Mind Works
> 
> Chomsky:    New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind
>                     The Architecture of Language
> 
> Piaget: Developmental Psychology 
> 
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> 
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