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If you are interested in thought experiments, this book does a great job of providing you "tools for thinking". The book is called intuition pumps and other too
by mad44 10y ago
If you are interested in thought experiments, this book does a great job of providing you "tools for thinking". The book is called intuition pumps and other tools for thinking by Daniel Dennett.
https://www.amazon.com/Intuition-Pumps-Other-Tools-Thinking/dp/1491518871 https://www.amazon.com/Intuition-Pumps-Other-Tools-Thinking/...
- opaqe 10y agoThis was my immediate idea for a comment as well. His "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" book also has an extended discussion on the "Library of Mendel" which I forgot if he included in intuition pumps. But from a programming languages perspective I think the discussion of navigating "design space" in a generalized way is a very powerful abstraction.
- dTal 10y agoRather delightfully, the phrase "intuition pump" is itself an intuition pump :)