virus: A couple book recommendations
David McFadzean (david@lucifer.com)
Tue, 01 Sep 1998 09:05:09 -0600
>From: Pascal Buckley <PBuckley@LedbetterDavidson.com>
>To: "'david@lucifer.com'" <david@lucifer.com>
>Subject: Hullo, David...
>Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 10:23:48 -0400
>
>Lovely website. Having read many of the books you list, here are two of
>my recommendations. Both belong in the 'complexity' category, although
>you could just as easily stick them in philosophy or, perhaps more
>peripherally, in cognitive science.
>
>Both by John Holland:
>
>Hidden Order, which discusses (quite accessibly) complex adaptive
>systems, magnificent beasties; he sets out conditions and
>characteristics, etc.
>
>and
>
>Emergence, wherein he discusses just that. I have not yet finished it,
>but so far it is great.
>
>Also a nifty read is Dan Dennett's Kinds of Minds, wherein he talks
>about what sorts of minds there are, what we mean by 'mind,' what it
>means to have a mind...classically Dan, along the road he does some nice
>debunking, makes you laugh here and there, and gives a little insight
>into the evolution of consciousness, and why AI is no more than an
>engineering difficulty. Nice diagrams, too.
>
>Cheers, mate-
>
>Pascal
>
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