Vaniver comments on Behavior: The Control of Perception - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Vaniver 21 January 2015 01:21AM

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Comment author: dvasya 21 January 2015 09:30:50PM 2 points [-]

Here's another excellent book roughly from the same time: "The Phenomenon of Science" by Valentin F. Turchin (http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/posbook.html). It starts from largely similar concepts and proceeds through the evolution of the nervous system to language to math to science. I suspect it may be even more AI-relevant than Powers.

Comment author: Vaniver 22 January 2015 01:02:19AM 0 points [-]

Thanks for the link (which has the free pdf, for anyone else interested)! After a few months at being only at a book or two, my reading queue is up towards a dozen again, so I'm not sure when I'll get to reading it.