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Neuroboros is focused on dissecting the
brain-as-computer-as-brain loop
Science Distributed presents Neuroboros
Neuroboros is focused on dissecting the
brain-as-computer-as-brain loop
Neuroboros Bibliography and Recommendations
Mathematics & Logic
The Function of Reason Alfred North Whitehead 1929, 1958
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Douglas Hofstadter 1979
John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener Steve J Heims 1980
Prisoner’s Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb William Poundstone 1992
Russell Ray Monk 1999
Godel: A Life in Logic John Casti and Werner DePauli 2000
Godel’s Proof Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman 2001
Computers, Internet & Cyberspace
The Computer and the Brain John von Neumann 1958
Charles Babbage and His Calculating Engines Philip Morrison and Emily Morrison (Editors) 1961
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation Joseph Weizenbaum 1976
Boolean Algebra for Computer Logic Harold E. Ennes 1978
Turing’s Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age J. David Bolter 1984
Atanasoff: Forgotten Father of the Computer Clark R. Mollenhoff 1988
Computers and Human Language George W. Smith 1991
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology Neil Postman 1993
Management Information Systems Sixth Edition Raymond McLeod, Jr. 1995
Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers Prophet of the Computer Age Betty Alexandra Toole 1998
On Turing John Prager 2001
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google Nicholas Carr 2009
Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe George Dyson 2012
Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age David A. Price 2021
Artificial Intelligence & Robots
Machines Who Think Pamela McCorduck 1979
The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence Volume 1 Avron Barr & Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editors) 1981
The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence Volume 2 Avron Barr & Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editors) 1982
The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence Volume 3 Paul R. Cohen & Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editors) 1982
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Philip C. Jackson, Jr. 1974, 1985
The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence Volume IV Avron Barr, Paul R. Cohen & Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editors) 1989
In the Image of the Brain: Breaking the Barrier Between the Human Mind and Intelligent Machines Jim Jubak 1992
When Things Start to Think Neil Gershenfeld 1999
The Age of Spiritual Machines Ray Kurzweil 1999
How to Build a Mind: Toward Machines with Imagination Igor Aleksander 2001
Edison’s Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life Gaby Wood 2002
The Mechanical Mind in History Philip Husbands, Owen Holland, and Michael Wheeler (Editors) 2008
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed Ray Kurzweil 2012
Dating AI: A Guide to Falling in Love with Artificial Intelligence Alex Zhavoronkoff 2012
Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy David A. Mindell 2015
Robot: A Visual Atlas from Ancient Greece to Artificial Intelligence Luca Beatrice 2016
The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence Amir Husain 2017
The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity Byron Reese 2018
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity Amy Webb 2019
Will AI Replace Us? A Primer for the 21st Century Matthew Taylor (Editor) 2019
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values Brian Christian 2020
If/Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future Jill Lepore 2020
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do Erik J. Larsen 2021
A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going Michael Wooldridge 2021
12 Bytes: How We Got Here, Where We Might Go Next Jeanette Winterson 2021
Cybernetics
Cybernetics: Or control and Communication in the Animal and Machine Norbert Wiener 1948, 1961, 1965, 1985
The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society Norbert Wiener 1950 (P) - Note: Reprinted in 1954 and 1989 without final chapter “Voices of Rigidity”
Design for a Brain W. Ross Ashby 1952, 1960
God & Golem: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion Norbert Wiener 1963 (P)
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Marshall McLuhan 1964
Great Ideas in Information Theory, Language, and Cybernetics Jagit Singh 1966
Cybernetics F.H. George 1971
An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise John R. Pierce 1980
Critical Path R. Buckminster Fuller 1981
Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener the Father of Cybernetics Flo Conway & Jim Siegelman 2004
Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet Ian F. McNeely with Lisa Wolverton 2008
The Cybernetic Brain Andrew Pickering 2010
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood James Gleick 2011
A Life in Cybernetics - Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth & I Am a Mathematician: The Later Life of a Prodigy Norbert Wiener 2017 (1953 & 1956)
Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI John Brockman (Editor) 2019
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