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<div>===Read:===<br />
*BF Skinner's Beyond Freedom and Dignity<br />
*Dennett's Consciousness Explained<br />
*The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald<br />
*The Essential Muir<br />
*The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James<br />
*The Worldly Philosophers (a 'great men' history of economics)<br />
*Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche (which I always spell correctly)<br />
*Nize baby Gross, Milt, 1895-1953. <br />
*The man who loved only numbers : the story of Paul Erdos and the search for mathematical truth Hoffman, Paul, 1956- <br />
*Vehicles, experiments in synthetic psychology Braitenberg, Valentino. <br />
*Val Vygotsky's Mind and Society, 1930<br />
*Hierarchy theory; the challenge of complex systems Pattee, H. H. <br />
*The exploit : a theory of networks Galloway, Alexander R., 1974- <br />
**(Don't read it, it is bad, unless you are a starry-eyed adolescent pomo-technoboner fanboy.)<br />
*Maturana and Varela, the Tree of Knowledge<br />
*New cautionary tales Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953. <br />
*Cautionary verses; the collected humorous poems of H. Belloc <br />
*Ladies and gentlemen Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953. <br />
*A moral alphabet Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953. <br />
*Andy Clark's Mindware<br />
*The Revolt of the Masses Ortega y Gasset<br />
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===Reading:===<br />
*Human Reasoning and Cognition (an argument to get reasoning a role in cognitive science again, not my bag but I'm open to having my mind changed)<br />
*Bertrand Russell's On Science and Religion<br />
*Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore Calvino, Italo. (but in English)<br />
*Barthes's Mythologies<br />
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===Constantly Reading:===<br />
*Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman<br />
*The same kids books over and over<br />
*divers writing/typography/type/design/print/book books<br />
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===To Read Sooner:===<br />
*The Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche<br />
*What computers still can't do. H. Dreyfus<br />
*Holland's Hidden Order<br />
*Adaptive individuals in evolving populations : models and algorithms Belew, Richard K. and Mitchell<br />
*An introduction to genetic algorithms Mitchell, Melanie.<br />
*Civilization and its Discontents by Freud<br />
*Tristes Tropiques, Levi-Strauss<br />
*The Savage Mind, Levi-Strauss<br />
*Barthes's Sade, Loyola, Fourier<br />
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===To Read:===<br />
*Stuart Kauffman's RBN book<br />
*The affluent society Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006. <br />
*Thoreau, Selections from Walden<br />
*The Selfish Gene andor Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins)<br />
*The Origin of Species (Darwin)<br />
*On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Thompson<br />
*Unbearable Lightness<br />
*Fleischman's Cultivating Inner Peace (Buddhist angle on many different people. Forrest's dad wrote this)<br />
*Secrets of the Temple by William Greider (recommended book about the Fed)<br />
*Dennett and Hotstadter's Mind's Eye<br />
*Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery<br />
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===To Read Later:===<br />
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