Full name: The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity

Author: Heinz R. Pagels Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Computer Science, Philosophy, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780553347104 0553347101

In the provocative, enlightening style of James Gleick's Chaos, The Dreams of Reason reveals how the conjunction of the revolutionary new sciences and computer technology is changing our view of reality. Similar books: Complexity by Roger Lewin Complexity by Melanie Mitchell Complexity by M. Mitchell Waldrop Complexification by John L. Casti Investigations by Stuart Kauffman Emergence by John H. Holland How Nature Works by Per Bak The Cosmic Code by Heinz R. Pagels The Divine Matrix by Gregg Braden The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude E. Shannon The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark The Big Picture by Sean Carroll On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems by Kurt Godel The Field by Lynne McTaggart Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins Godel's Proof by Ernest Nagel The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil