 | Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology (Bradford Books) by Valentino Braitenberg
Buy new: £12.36 / Used from: £9.98 You've got to get it
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 | Emergence: From Chaos to Order by John H. Holland
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £3.99 Covers a lot of the same ground as this course, linking search and representation with neural networks via Hollands notion of constrained generating procedures.
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 | Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Helix Books) by John Holland
Buy used from: £8.19 Covers an economics/ecosystem inspired approach to getting interesting emergent behaviour
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 | The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity by Heinz R. Pagels
Buy used from: £0.55 Great combination of philosophical thoughts on simulation, conciousness, Descartes, Kant and modern AI/complex systems research.
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 | An Introduction To Genetic Algorithms by MITCHELL MELANIE
one of the classic references
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 | Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell
Buy new: £11.08 / Used from: £12.42 Good stuff
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 | Chance and Chaos (Penguin Science) by David Ruelle
Buy used from: £0.12 for discussions of dynamics, time, entropy. (Really, really, really good book. Get this book.) Also has an interesting discussion of how to think abous free will in terms of chaos.
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 | Warmth Disperses and Time Passes (Modern Library) by Hans Christian Von Baeyer
Buy used from: £5.34 Nice introductions to entropy and information, history included
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 | The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems and Adaptation (Bradford Book) by GW Flake
Buy new: £26.91 / Used from: £26.11 Has lots of interesting material connecting the theory of computation and algorithmic complexity, with fractals, dynamical systems, neural nets, and more...
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 | Computational Intelligence: An Introduction by Andries P. Engelbrecht
Buy new: £52.25 / Used from: £66.70 quite expensive but look as though it might be worth it
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 | Fundamentals of Computational Swarm Intelligence by Andries P. Engelbrecht
Buy new: £72.99 / Used from: £103.48 quite expensive but look as though it might be worth it
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 | Artificial Intelligence by Stuart Russell
Buy new: £42.74 may be a new release of:
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 | Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (International Edition) by Stuart Russell
Buy new: £49.39 / Used from: £35.20 |
 | Artificial Life (Penguin science) by Steven Levy
Buy used from: £0.56 I love this book. It tells the history of the quest for new creation: Vita in silico
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 | YOUR BRAIN IS (ALMOST) PERFECT: How We Make Decisions by Read Montague
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £4.09 Where do values come from and how they enable us to make decisions
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 | Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving by George F. Luger
Buy used from: £3.38 Very useful on the course
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 | The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science) by Sir Roger Penrose
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £2.99 Controversial explanation why artificial intelligence is impossible - a classic though
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 | Discourse on Method and the Meditations (Classics) by Rene Descartes
Buy used from: £0.41 I think, therefore I am
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 | Simulacra and Simulation (The Body in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism) by Jean Baudrillard
Buy new: £10.12 / Used from: £6.48 It also inspired The Matrix
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 | And Another Thing ...: Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three (Hitchhikers Guide 6) by Eoin Colfer
Buy new: £9.49 / Used from: £8.09 It's release is the same time as the exam; extremely improbable?
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 | Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (20th anniversary edition with a new preface by the author) by Douglas R Hofstadter
Buy new: £13.26 / Used from: £11.35 a Pulitzer Prize-winner
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