Understanding Living Systems

Understanding Living Systems similar books

• 

  How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology

  A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers.
  
  Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence

  What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

  Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI. Artificial intellig…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

  National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

  Two months since the stars fell...
  
  Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

  The brain - the most complex dynamical system in the known universe - tells, represents, and perceives time in multiple ways. In this virtuosic work of popular science, neuroscientist and best-selling…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Irreducible

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)

  A spectacular new space opera that sees humanity fighting for its survival in a war as old as the universe itself.
  
  How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

  In pursuit of the wild, solitary, predatory octopus, popular naturalist Sy Montgomery has practiced true immersion journalism. From New England aquarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia and the …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems

  In this enchanting little book, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work, starting with investigating the principles of physics by observing the sophi…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Ways of Attending: How our Divided Brain Constructs the World

  Attention is not just receptive, but actively creative of the world we inhabit. How we attend makes all the difference to the world we experience. And nowadays in the West we generally attend in a rat…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  On the Genealogy of Morals

  On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the central values of the Judaeo-Chris…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards

  The new era of Gamification and Human-Focused Design optimizes for motivation and engagement over traditional Function-Focused Design. Within the industry, studies on game mechanics and behavioral psy…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Service Model

  To fix the world they first must break it further.
  
  Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into their c…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference

  Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You're not alone. AI is everywhere—and few things are surrounded by so much hype, misinformation, and mis…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Alien Clay

  They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . .
  
  On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body

  Two New York Times-bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain.
  
  In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust

  From the New York Times bestselling author of The Language of God and former director of the National Institutes of Health, a deeply thoughtful guidebook to get us beyond politics and back to the sour…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

  Buy this book on Amazon