| |
|
Society of Mind
Marvin Minsky
Simon & Schuster, 1988
Understanding how the mind works
+ Agents and Emergence before it was popular.
+ Simple agents and the human mind
+ a very interesting book
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
Eric Drexler
Anchor, 1987
Definitely a provocative read!
+ Engines of nanotechnology
+ Watershed book on the transhumanist movement
+ Nano Technology
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
A New Kind of Science
Stephen Wolfram
Wolfram Media, 2002
Big, Beautiful and Formidable
+ A New Kind of Computer Art?
+ An Extraordinary Compendium of Research Notes
+ Excellent
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution
John Brockman
Touchstone, 1996
Fine. But don't exaggerate
+ The third culture
What John Brockman does here makes a lot of sense. He brings together a whole group of first- rank scientists and enables them to explain major aspects of their thought. These 'popularizations' of scientific work taken together, and dialogued about are however proposed by Brockman to be the basis ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Our Cosmic Habitat
Martin Rees
Princeton University Press, 2003
Deep Mysteries of the Cosmos Simply Told
+ The Best Book on the Cosmos I've Ever Read
+ Exellent Place to Begin
+ Local bylaws and the multiverse
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Hacking Matter: Levitating Chairs, Quantum Mirages, and the Infinite Weirdness of Programmable Atoms
Wil Mccarthy
Basic Books, 2004
If you're interested
+ Quantum Dot/Wire , SET , QCA/MQCA , Neural nets
+ Is the Replicator from "Star Trek" Soon to Become a Reality?
+ Incredibly cool and entertaining
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
Lee Smolin
Basic Books, 2002
A theory of quantum gravity by 2015!
+ I wish I had read the less than positive reviews more closely.
+ Quantum Gravity Review
+ " The Diggidy Dog of Physics Books"
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead
Frank J. Tipler
Anchor, 1997
This book made me a theist
This book convinced me, or more correctly the arguments presented in this book convinced me, to become a theist, a position I had abandoned many years earlier and which I had never, before reading this book, had either a reason to reconsider, or imagined I would ever change much less reverse. This ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
Seth Lloyd
Vintage, 2007
An "informational? perspective of the universe
+ Living and Computing in Lloyd's Universe
+ Caught in the middle - too simplistic if you know, too complicated if you don't
+ interesting view of the universe
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications
David Deutsch
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1998
Brilliant, but not perfect
David Deutsch's aim in writing The Fabric of Reality is to present a theory that does not relate to one particular subject, but to all subjects: a `Theory of Everything'. To do so, he interrelates quantum mechanics, computation and virtual reality, Popperian scientific method, and Darwinian ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Holographic Universe
Michael Talbot
Harper Perennial, 1992
One of the most valuable insights in history.
+ A lasting impact
+ Superb writing.
+ A Thought Provoking Discussion
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Ray Kurzweil
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
upon reading it a second time...
+ The Singularity
+ Insightful, but not gripping
+ Really makes you wonder
+ Excellent Roadmap of the Potential Future
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and ...
Alan M. Turing
Oxford University Press, USA, 2004
a long overdue book
+ An excellent edition, long overdue
+ Most Accessible Introduction to Turing
+ A valuable addition in paraphrasing Turing
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality
Dean Radin
Paraview Pocket Books, 2006
An Important Book
+ Evidence and concepts that bridge the fields of quantum physics and consciousness
+ Is everything connected? Yes it is. Everyone should read this.
+ Excellent
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence
Hans Moravec
Harvard University Press, 1990
Visionary
+ Good but a little too far out
+ Buy it for the prologue alone!
+ A definitive Work for the strong AI perspective
|
|
|
|
|
|
