5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind

Re:5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind by babyshake on Thursday October 02, 2008 @02:30AM (#321489)

Godel, Escher, Bach is one of the best books ever written in this cosmos.

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Re:5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind by robg on Thursday October 02, 2008 @09:37AM (#321696)

I agree, but it's also probably one of the most owned but never finished books in the cosmos. Brief History of Time (by Hawking) too.

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Re:5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind by bookhuddle on Thursday October 02, 2008 @01:35PM (#321928)

Agree that "Brief History..." is a great book.

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Re:5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind by yters on Thursday October 02, 2008 @08:03AM (#321631)

It's definitely clever, but he seems generally confused about his thesis. As I recall, he defines intelligence as the ability to step outside the system. So, if intelligence is a system, then if it steps outside of itself to formalize itself into AI, then it has not formalized itself.

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