Books please...

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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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