Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
By: David J. Chalmers
3.73
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Virtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original wor…
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1. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
By: Nick Bostrom
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig… read more
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2. Consciousness Explained
By: Daniel C. Dennett
3.90
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
"Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." … read more
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"Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity."-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but telling stories, and more particularly connecting and controlling the story we …"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"This 'web of discourses' as Robyn called it...is as much a biological product as any of the other constructions to be found in the animal world. (Clothes too, are part of the extended phenotype of Ho…"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"There is a species of primate in South America more gregarious than most other mammals, with a curious behavior.The members of this species often gather in groups, large and small, and in the course …"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
3. God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
4.27
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
A meditation on what it might mean to be human in an age of ever-accelerating technology. read more
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"As black-box technologies become more widespread, there have been no shortage of demands for increased transparency. In 2016 the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation included in its st…"-Meghan O'Gieblyn, God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
4. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
5. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
By: Anil Seth
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more
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6. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
By: Max Solomon Bennett
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more
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7. The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
By: Donald D. Hoffman
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim th… read more
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"Once we know the rules that human vision uses to decode messages about fitness, we can use those rules to send the messages we want. Consider jeans."-Donald D. Hoffman, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
8. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
By: Sean Carroll
4.07
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist a… read more
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"Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"As far as quantum field theory is concerned, a human being or the center of a star isn’t all that different from empty space."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a single motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"If there were some nefarious conspiracy to make the world look quantum-mechanical, it had to have been set up hundreds of years ago, when the light left those stars. It's possible, but doesn't seem l…"-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
9. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
By: Stuart Russell
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to c… read more
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"To get just an inkling of the fire we're playing with, consider how content-selection algorithms function on social media. They aren't particularly intelligent, but they are in a position to affect t…"-Stuart Russell, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
10. Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
By: David Edmonds
4.26
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker , an entertaining and illuminating biography … read more
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11. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
3.92
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more
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"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
12. What We Owe the Future
By: William MacAskill
3.84
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more
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13. The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
By: Erik J. Larson
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A cutting-edge AI researcher and tech entrepreneur debunks the fantasy that superintelligence is ju… read more
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"This cuts the myth at an awkward angle: it is because the [artificial intelligence] systems are idiots, but still find their way into business, consumer, and government application, that human-value …"-Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
"Notice that the story [of technical progress accelerating indefinitely] is not testable; we just have to wait around and see. If the predicted year of true AI's coming is false, too, another one can …"-Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
"In the early part of the twentieth century, the philosopher of language Paul Grice offered four maxims for successful conversation: The maxim of quantity. Try to be as informative as you possibly can…"-Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
"Science, once a triumph of human intelligence, now seems headed into a morass of rhetoric about the power of big data and new computational methods, where the scientists' role is now as a technician,…"-Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
14. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
By: Sean Carroll
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that h… read more
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15. The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
By: Mark Solms
4.26
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
For Mark Solms, one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience, discovering how conscious… read more
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"What you experience all the time is fluctuating pulses of feeling in response to your movement through the world, as you check whether everything is as you expected to find it - and as you try to clo…"-Mark Solms, The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
16. The Experience Machine
By: Andy Clark
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worldsFor as long as … read more
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17. Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being
By: Neil Theise
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave—from c… read more
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18. Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
By: Philip Goff
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From a leading philosopher of the mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radical… read more
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19. Why? The Purpose of the Universe
By: Philip Goff
3.77
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Why are we here? What's the point of existence? On the 'big questions' of meaning and purpose, West… read more
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20. Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
By: David J. Chalmers
3.73
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Virtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original wor… read more
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21. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
By: Ray Kurzweil
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more
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