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My two cents: The selfish gene by Richard Dawkins - makes you look at living beings as software, and at the world as an immense optimization algorithm. Permut
by Udik 11y ago
My two cents:
The selfish gene by Richard Dawkins - makes you look at living beings as software, and at the world as an immense optimization algorithm.
Permutation City by Greg Egan - the perfectly rational idea that the mind is computable is rife with apparently unsolvable paradoxes.
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. Maths, logic, patterns, artificial intelligence, beauty, art and self-referentiality.
- mindcrime 11y agoI think we've swapped notes on a similar thread before, so we may have already talked about this, but let me say that if you liked Permutation City by Egan, you may also like Glasshouse by Charles Stross. I also "second the motion" in regards to both The Selfish Gene and *Gödel, Escher, Bach".
- Udik 11y ago> we may have already talked about this.. Not that I remember. Thank you, I took note!