What Am I Reading?

Below I highlight a handful of writers and texts which have inspired my thinking throughout the years. I occasionally update these listings to reflect what is currently on my mind; therefore, an archive of titles that have appeared on this page may be found at the bottom.

Current Highlights

- Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas R. Hofstadter)

- Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior (Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo, and Karl J. Friston)

Archive

• Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (John H. Holland)

• The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age (Stanisław Lem)

• His Master’s Voice (Stanisław Lem)

• Narcissus and Goldmund (Hermann Hesse)

• Evolution’s Eye: A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide (Susan Oyama)

• The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution (Susan Oyama)

• Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Richard Rorty)

• Against Method (Paul Feyerabend)

• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas S. Kuhn)

• The Glass Bead Game (Hermann Hesse)

• The Gay Science (Friedrich Nietzsche)