Machine Intelligence Literature
Wetware (Rudy Rucker) ---»
...Found this book in an alley. Signed up for a lower body transplant. Melted the top half. Walked around as a birdbath with legs for awhile. Tried to get brain back but the beaurocracy was terrible. What can one do? Wetware is one of the classics of the cyborg life. Just doesnt get any better. [...]
Software (Rudy Rucker) ---»
...The first in Ruckers Ware series, and the first book in which Ruckerbeing tips over the boundary of suspicion that he is not pure Meat, but part Machine bopper meat writing machine intelligence cyborgized into superconducting free will. The tactic of writing from the point of view of your flesh components in an effort to [...]
Software Engineering and Computer Games (Rudy Rucker) ---»
...Not to review textbooks, but this is a good textbook. Its rare that discussions of engineering veer into the conceptual gestalt as much, especially as practices become enmeshed in ratiocination to the nth degree. The window foundation class codebase is highly outdated and inappropriate for the level of design presentation and discussion, but if taken [...]
The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy (Rudy Rucker) ---»
...Ok. Universal automatism. This is hopeful. However, if you remove four letters, you are left with Universal Autism. Is this where www.omat.com will take us? Rucker has a good discussion here about the integration of meat and machine, but before we reach that physical stage, there are some conceptual machines that might need to be [...]
