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Joscha Bach Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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FOLLOWS YOU. Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Architectures, Computation. The goal is integrity, not conformity.

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Book Cover for: Consciousness: The Basics, Keith Frankish

Consciousness: The Basics

Keith Frankish
Joscha BachJoscha Bach

@_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
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Book Cover for: Orlando Furioso: Orlando Enraged, Ludovico Ariosto

Orlando Furioso: Orlando Enraged

Ludovico Ariosto
Joscha BachJoscha Bach

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
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Book Cover for: The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Neil Gaiman
Joscha BachJoscha Bach

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
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Book Cover for: Peter Wilkins: Or, the Flying Islanders, Paltock Robert

Peter Wilkins: Or, the Flying Islanders

Paltock Robert
Joscha BachJoscha Bach

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
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Book Cover for: Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman

Ocean at the End of the Lane

Neil Gaiman
Joscha BachJoscha Bach

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
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Peter Wilkins

Robert Paltock
Joscha BachJoscha Bach

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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Book Cover for: Science, Let's Write

Science

Let's Write
Joscha BachJoscha Bach

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
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Book Cover for: Consciousness Explained, Daniel C. Dennett

Consciousness Explained

Daniel C. Dennett
Joscha BachJoscha Bach

@TNWJackson Daniel Dennett: “Consciousness explained” Keith Frankish: “Consciousness explained away”

Paperback, 1992

$23.99$11.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind, Stephen Grossberg

Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind

Stephen Grossberg
Joscha BachJoscha Bach

@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
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Book Cover for: Echopraxia, Peter Watts

Echopraxia

Peter Watts
Joscha BachJoscha Bach

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
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