Vehicles
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Vehicles
Valentino Braitenberg
4 people recommended it in 3 threads, 2010–2024.
What people on Hacker News said
Has shaped my outlook on artificial intelligence more than anything else, and this was written in 1984, long before GPT-3 was a thing. Absolutely "mind-blowing" in that it deconstructs and then reassembles your understanding of what a mind is.
"Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology" by Valentino Braitenberg is a quick read, and fun thought experiment. It's inspirational for engineering tinkering types.
Vehicles by Valentino Braitenberg -- a study of theoretical robots whose behavior is interpreted as more and more biologically plausible.
Where it comes up
- Ask HN: What is the most mind blowing book you've ever read? 2015 · 2 recommendations
- Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? 2024 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: Great books you read in 2009? 2010 · 1 recommendation