Joscha Bach Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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FOLLOWS YOU. Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Architectures, Computation. The goal is integrity, not conformity.

Consciousness: The Basics
Keith Frankish
@_xiaoyangyu @TNWJackson Is there a particular reason for me to think that your exploration of consciousness should be more interesting to me than what Keith Frankish has put in the same corner?
Paperback, 2026
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Orlando Furioso: Orlando Enraged
Ludovico Ariosto
Hippogriff: A creature invented by Ludovico Ariosto in the 16th century in his epic Orlando Furioso, based on an expression of Virgil's denoting the impossible, "to cross griffons with horses"... https://t.co/tzSgb3xRBN
Paperback, 2011
$27.27$13.64 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
This state has been described well by many observers, eg. Neil Gaiman in The Ocean at the End of the Lane, or by K.E. in personal conversation, and can be a training goal for meditators. It is sometimes referred to as the Non-dual State. Some people confuse it with enlightenment.
Paperback, 2021
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Peter Wilkins: Or, the Flying Islanders
Paltock Robert
Youwarkee: The half-bird half-woman heroine of the 1751 novel The Life and Adventure Peter Wilkins a Cornish Man by Robert Paltock, Youwarkee is one of the winged glumms that inhabit an Antarctic island. Peter Wilkins is a shipwrecked sailor who marries her... https://t.co/vby9WBv6Ej
Paperback, 2022
$13.95$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
This state has been described well by many observers, eg. Neil Gaiman in The Ocean at the End of the Lane, or by K.E. in personal conversation, and can be a training goal for meditators. It is sometimes referred to as the Non-dual State. Some people confuse it with enlightenment.
Hardcover, 2021
$34.00$17.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Peter Wilkins
Robert Paltock
Youwarkee: The half-bird half-woman heroine of the 1751 novel The Life and Adventure Peter Wilkins a Cornish Man by Robert Paltock, Youwarkee is one of the winged glumms that inhabit an Antarctic island. Peter Wilkins is a shipwrecked sailor who marries her... https://t.co/vby9WBv6Ej
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Science
Let's Write
To see people making real progress in theoretical and applied computer science, let’s freeze hardware development and don’t allow any computer scientists to use any software they did not write by themselves. In any case, expect computer science to be taken over by machines soon.
Paperback, 2019
$7.99$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Consciousness Explained
Daniel C. Dennett
@TNWJackson Daniel Dennett: “Consciousness explained” Keith Frankish: “Consciousness explained away”
Paperback, 1992
$23.99$11.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind
Stephen Grossberg
@algekalipso @JimmyRis You may find Grossberg's "Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain" to be an interesting read
Hardcover, 2021
$39.99$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Echopraxia
Peter Watts
Conversely, Peter Watts' "Echopraxia" is everything a Gibson novel aspires to be: terse and well-constructed prose, rock hard science fiction, cutting edge explorations of AI and consciousness, social physics, mindbending technology, and genetically engineered super vampires.
Paperback, 2015
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book