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'God Human Animal Machine' by Meghan O'Gieblyn was a very interesting read. Her background in an evangelical seminary->physics obsessed naturalist->ponderer of
by raygunzapzap 3y ago
'God Human Animal Machine' by Meghan O'Gieblyn was a very interesting read. Her background in an evangelical seminary->physics obsessed naturalist->ponderer of AI consciousness made for a very interesting voice and perspective.
Blind Sight by Peter Watts is some amazing fiction, a gripping First Contact story
The Body Keeps the Score and My Grandmother's Hands are two excellent books to assist at recognizing and processing the generational habits and traumas that impact us deeper than we realize
- NikolaNovak 3y agoThree more thumbs up for Blind Sight. Gripping story but also puts forward some interesting questions on nature of consciousness and reality (but not in a woozy spiritual way; basically - what happens to your senses and thoughts when subjected to a massive and changing magnetic field?). Not quite Phillip K Dick as far as unreliable narrator goes, but it's cool once you start questioning the perspectives and observations :)
- slothtrop 3y agoThis has been on my list for some time, since I came across this great essay by O'Gieblyn on spontaneity/habit. One that I bounced off of recently is A Fire Upon The Deep. I don't get it.