Here’s another excellent book roughly from the same time: “The Phenomenon of Science” by Valentin F. Turchin (http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/posbook.html). It starts from largely similar concepts and proceeds through the evolution of the nervous system to language to math to science. I suspect it may be even more AI-relevant than Powers.
Thanks for the link (which has the free pdf, for anyone else interested)! After a few months at being only at a book or two, my reading queue is up towards a dozen again, so I’m not sure when I’ll get to reading it.
Here’s another excellent book roughly from the same time: “The Phenomenon of Science” by Valentin F. Turchin (http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/posbook.html). It starts from largely similar concepts and proceeds through the evolution of the nervous system to language to math to science. I suspect it may be even more AI-relevant than Powers.
Thanks for the link (which has the free pdf, for anyone else interested)! After a few months at being only at a book or two, my reading queue is up towards a dozen again, so I’m not sure when I’ll get to reading it.