Re: [microsound] blinded by science

[Mark Khemma <mkhemma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, anechoic wrote:

>
> a good book on the similarity of scientsists and artists is "Two Cultures"
> by CP Snow
>


follow that up with "The Third Culture" edited by John Brockman. It's a
wonderful
book where scientists/theorist provide there own theories and backup/slash
others. i don't really know if it has much relevance to microsound, but if
you kinda want to know what is going on in the minds of some of the great
scientific thinkers that are still alive, relevant to biology, mathematics,
physics, etc. this might be worthwhile for some of you. I suppose
this would fit quite well within the philosophy of science.

Contents:
"The Emerging Third Culture" - John Brockman
"A Package of Information" - George C. Williams
"The Pattern of Life's History" - Stephan Jay Gould
"A Survival Machine"	- Richard Dawkins
"Biology is Just a Dance" 	- Brian Goodwill
"Why is There So Much Genetic Diversity" - Steve Jones
"A Battle of Words"		- Niles Eldredge
"Gaia is a Tough Bitch"		- Lynn Margulis
"Smart Machines"		- Marvin Minsky
"Information is Surprises"	- Roger Shank
"Intuition Pumps"		- Daniel Dennett
"The Thick Moment"		- Nicholas Humphrey
"The Emergent Self"	- Franisco Varela
"Language is a Human Instinct"	- Steven Pinker
"Consciousness Involves Noncomputable Ingredients" - Roger Penrose
"An Ensemble of Universes"	- Martin Rees
"A Universe in Your Backyard"	- Alan Guth
"A Theory of the Whole Universe" -	Lee Smolin
"The Synthetic Path"	- Paul Davies
"Plectics"	 - Murray Gell-Mann
"Order for Free"	- Stuart Kauffman
"A Dynamical Pattern" - Christopher G. Langton
"The Second Law of Organization" - J. Doyne Farmer
"Close to the Singularity"	- W. Daniel Hillis