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philip
Global brain, Howard Bloom also (largely?) at:
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/special/glob/default.html
a good look at the evolution of biotic (as far as I have read) collective computational intelligence systems
mark - also a very slow reader
Philip Jonkers <P.A.E.Jonkers@phys.rug.nl> wrote:
>Dear fellow memetics-list members,
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>I noticed you guys (haven't witnessed any girls yet, sorry to say)
>are quite educated and well read, judging from the frequent
>reference to books on the list. I would like to exploit this fact
>by asking each one of you what your favorite books are.
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>That is, please cite the titles of the books you learned
>the most from. Also give a brief reason why please.
>The last year I've become very interested in evolutionary
>theory (biology, memetics, universal), intelligence and
>neuroscience and am very eager to learn about these topics.
>However, I have this problem that I don't read very quickly.
>This forces me to be rather picky in choosing what books to read.
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>So, I would appreciate it if I could tap into your experience by
>learning what books were most useful to you.
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>The books I've read or still are reading, include:
>The Meme-Machine (Blackmore)
>The Selfish Gene (Dawkins)
>Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Dennett)
>How The Mind Works (Pinker)
>The Origin Of Species (Darwin)
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>Thanks much in advance,
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>Philip.
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