Minds: Human, Artificial, and Superhuman
A reading list exploring the mind from a transhumanist point of view–how it is, how it could be, and how society might look if things were different. Books were selected for breadth, and arranged to maximize variation in content between neighbors.
- Plato For Everyone – Aviezer Tucker
- Nexus – Raamez Naam
- Infinite Reality: The Hidden Blueprint of our Virtual Lives – Jim Blascovich
- Crux – Ramex Naam
- How to Create a Mind – Ray Kurzweil
- Apex – Ramez Naam
- Our Posthuman Future – Francis Fukuyama
- I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
- The Second Machine Age – Erik Brynjolfsson
- Reclaiming Conversation – The Power of Talk in the Digital Age
- Neuromancer – William Gibson
- Superintelligence – Nick Bostrom
How to Think, and Improving Your Mind
A reading list taking a look at different aspects of how we think. Some give guidance on how to improve and optimize your thinking, and some are just illustrative. The centerpieces of this list are the (classic!) HP:MoR by Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Algorithms to Live By.
- Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy – David D. Burns
- The Chimes – Anna Smaill
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience – Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
- Forest of Memory – Mary Robinette Kowal
- Algorithms To Live By – Brian Christian and Tom Griffit
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality – Eliezer Yudkowsk
- The Believing Brain – Michael Shermer
- Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time – Mark Haddo
- The Willpower Instinct – Kelly McGonigal
- A Doubter’s Almanac – Ethan Canin
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M. Pirsig
Trees
A reading list (very loosely) related to trees.
- The Hidden Life of Trees – Peter Wolleben
- The Light in the Forest – Conrad Richter
- The Lemon Tree – Sandy Tolan
- The Summer Tree – Guy Gavriel Kay
- The Halloween Tree – Ray Bradbury