<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Have you read something that you'd recommend? Please let us know!</span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gareth has a nice list below.</span><br></div><br><div>Andrew Stone<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118);"> @twittelator</span></div><div><a href="http://stone.com">http://stone.com</a></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Gareth Harris <<a href="mailto:garethharris@mac.com">garethharris@mac.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> October 28, 2015 at 1:08:13 PM MDT<br><b>To:</b> Andrew Stone <<a href="mailto:andrew@stone.com">andrew@stone.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>more suggested readings</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><div class="">Andrew, here are some more suggested readings, distribute if you want:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>===<div class=""><b class="">BOOKLIST - suggested readings</b></div><div class=""> addendum 2015-10-28 - — Gareth Harris - <a href="mailto:garethharris@mac.com" class="">garethharris@mac.com</a><br class=""> some were used in <a href="http://sentimentalstargazer.com">SentimentalStargazer.com</a><br class="">======================================<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge</b> by William Poundstone - uses cellular automata to explain some concepts of physics<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">The Golden Bough</b> by Sir James George Frazier - the 1900 classic on comparative religion<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Brains And Computers</b> by Tuck Newport - short quantitative comparison<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Higher Intelligence: How to Create a Functional Artificial Brain</b> by Peter A J van der Made - AI techniques<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">The Omega Upgrade</b> - A Short Story by Raima Larter - fiction about society changes<br class=""><br class="">Sapiens: A Real History of Humankind by Yuval Nora Harari - human evolution<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of the Mind</b> by Ian Glynn - multidisciplinary tour of workings of the brain<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling</b> by Allen B. Downey - tour of complexity algorithms using python<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">The Amoeba in the Room: Lives of the Microbes</b> by Nicholas P. Money - folksy microbiology how microbes are what’s important<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Myths to Live By</b> (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell Book 1)<br class=""><b class="">The Power of Myth</b><br class=""><b class="">The Hero With A Thousand Faces </b><br class="">all by Joseph Campbell - all must reads by Campbell<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Creation: How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself</b> by Adam Rutherford - from evolution to synthetic biology<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future</b> by Martin Ford - social effects of accelerating computer technology<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History</b> by Elizabeth Kolbert - the next coming mass extinction<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates</b> by Howard Bloom - how does an inanimate universe generate stunning new forms and unbelievable new powers without a Creator?<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Cybernetics: Second Edition: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine</b> by Norbert Weiner - the classic from 1948 with 2013 addendum<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">The Mathematical Theory of Communication</b> by Claude Shannon - the classic information theory paper<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">The Meaning of Human Existence </b>by E O Wilson - origin and destiny of humans by famous biologist also see:<br class=""><b class="">Life on Earth</b> - a survey of biology<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Pale Blue Dot<br class="">Cosmos<br class="">Dragons of Eden<br class="">Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark<br class="">Contact</b><br class="">etc by Carl Sagan<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">A New Kind of Science</b> by Stephen Wolfram - large scale exploration of cellular automata<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid</b> by Douglas R Hofstadter - the classic exploration of cognitive science<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Engines of Creation</b> by Eric Drexler - the now classic tome about nanotechnology and society<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Rare Earth</b> by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee - many expect thousands of civilizations to be discovered - this book reaches the opposite conclusion<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">River Out Of Eden</b> by Richard Dawkins - explanation of genetic evolution<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood </b>by James Gleick - into to information for the public,but good reading<br class=""><br class="">======================================<br class=""><br class="">OTHER BOOKS AND URLS:<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">The Evolution of the Eukaryotes</b> -<br class="">- <a href="http://www.world-builders.org/lessons/less/les4/eukaryotes.html">http://www.world-builders.org/lessons/less/les4/eukaryotes.html</a><br class=""><br class=""><b class="">The Evolution of the Earliest Cells</b> - <br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• <a href="https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/diakelly/150/cells.pdf">https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/diakelly/150/cells.pdf</a><br class=""></div><br class=""><b class="">Philosophy of Mind: Brains, Consciousness, and Thinking Machines</b> by Patrick Grimm<br class=""> - an excellent course downloadable from: <a href="http://thegreatcourses.com">thegreatcourses.com</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">======================================<br class="">ALSO see these classics:<br class=""><br class="">Bruner: A Study of Thinking, 1956, perhaps dated now, but a good starting point.<br class=""><br class="">Pinker: The Language Instinct<br class=""> the blank slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature<br class=""> How the Mind Works<br class=""><br class="">Chomsky: New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind<br class=""> The Architecture of Language<br class=""><br class="">Piaget: Developmental Psychology <br class=""><br class="">======================================<br class=""></div><br class=""></div></blockquote></body></html>