On Thought Perception & Computation
Explore the intersection of mind, machine, and reality through curated books on thought, perception, and computation—featuring Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach and Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics.
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Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
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Cybernetics
by Norbert Wiener
It appers impossible for anyone seriously interested in our civilization to ignore this book. It is a 'must' book for those in every branch of science . . . in addition, economists, politicians, statesmen, and businessmen cannot afford to overlook cybernetics and its tremendous, even terrifying implications.
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Swarm Intelligence (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence)
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Godel, Escher, Bach
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can emerge out of a formal system of firing neurons, then so too will computers attain human intelligence. Gödel, Escher, Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart of cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much more.