Michael
Posted Jun 10, 2007 12:13 PM
hyloguy
San Francisco, CA
Post #: 3
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Until I have a more permanent, wiki-like place to put things like this...

Here is the list of recommended books which Monica provided at our last meeting, for gaining a solid understanding of the "minority view" of AI:

Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Kelly - Out of Control
Rosen - Life Itself (very dense!)
Calvin - The Cerebral Symphony
Rumelhart - Parallel Distributed Processing (first quarter of the book)
Cziko - Without Miracles

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Added on 6/24/07:

Books by Douglas R. Hofstadter:
- Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- I Am a Strange Loop
- The Mind's I
- Metamagical Themas
A former member
Posted Mar 5, 2010 11:08 AM
Post #: 107
Reading List (or what I can remember of it):

Micromégas (Voltaire)
Origin Of The Species (Charles Darwin)
Pattern In Nature (Stevens)
General Theory Of Relativity (Einstein)
What Is Life (Schrödinger)
There Is Plenty of Room At The Bottom (Richard Feynman)
Slaughterhouse Five (Vonegut)
Motivation and Personality (Maslow)
To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Minds in Nature (Gregory Bateson)
Computer Lib, Dream Machine (Ted Nelson)
The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed (Racter)
Evolution as Entropy (Brooks/Wiley)
Hierarchy Theory (Ahl/Allen)
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Eudaemonic Pie (Thomas A. Bass)
The River That Flows Uphill (William Calvin)
The improbable machine (Jeremy Campbell)
Grammatical-Man]Grammatical Man (Jeremy Campbell)
Unweaving the Rainbow (Richard Dawkins)
Complexity (Brian Arthur)
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Sagan)
On Intelligence (Hawkins)
Creation, Life And How To Make It (Steve Grand)
The Meme Machine (Blackwell)
Ilium/Olympos (Simmons)
The Clock of the Long Now (Stewart Brand)
Alan Kay on Learning (video lecture on-line)
Decoding the Universe (Charles Seife)
Programing the Universe (Seth Lloid)
Cosmos & Culture (essay collection, NASA)
Algorithmic Complexity
Algorithmic Information Theory
Nonsense on Stilts (Masimo Pigliucci)

Hero List:

Democritus
Sophocles
Confucius/Christ/Buddha (and yes, I am an atheist!)
Luther/Gutenberg
Voltaire
Copernicus
Darwin
Babbage
Boltzman
Einstein
Erwin Schrödinger
Kurt Gödel
Turing
Shannon
Ray Solomonoff
Andrey Kolmogorov
Feynman
King (Martin Luther)
Kennedy (Robert)
Hofstadter
Nelson (Theodore "Ted")
Engelbart (Douglas)
Kay (Alan)
Gore (Al)
Barry (Lynda)
Klausner (Sandford)


Randall Reetz
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