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Book List
Physics-Philosophy
The First Three Minutes, Steven Weinberg.
Thirty Years That Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory, George Gamow.
One, two, three…infinity: facts and speculations in science, George Gamow.
We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe, Jorge Cham.
Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story, Jim Holt.
In a slightly more advanced level:
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us, Noson S. Yanofsky.
Innovation
Steal Like An Artist, Austin Kleon.
The Myths of Innovation, Scott Berkun.
Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others, David Kord Murray.
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective, Kenneth O. Stanley and Joel Lehman.
Mind-Consciousness
Consciousness: An Introduction, Susan Blackmore and Emily T. Troscianko.
Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human, Susan Blackmore.
Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy, Patricia S. Churchland.
AI
Artificial Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction, Margaret A. Boden.
AI: Its Nature and Future, Margaret A. Boden.