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Robert Rosen mentioned this book in his Essays on Life Itself which I’m reading now (Chapter 9, Genericity as Information) and I immediately ordered it. It arrived today and a brief glance at it convinced me that I shall start reading it now as it might give some additional insight into Rosennean Complexity. I hope to write more about this book and ideas it will have brought to me when I finish reading it.

Structural Stability And Morphogenesis (Advanced Books Classics)

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Thorough understanding of evolutionary theory and its applications to other disciplines was one of omissions in my education besides vague recollection of what I learnt at school 20-25 years ago. I actually remember pictures from Darwin’s books I looked at when I was a child I bought this book and started reading after seeing many references to it in Breaking the Spell from the same author. Currently I’m halfway through it. As far as I understand Dennett’s view of evolution is the computational one. Anyway there is much to learn from this book.

Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

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I’ve never read anything about religion since earlier school probably 25 years ago and my education was almost materialist-marxist-leninist. However I recently became interested in various religions mostly because of the diverse workplace and my ongoing philosophical education. I stumbled upon this book in a local shop, bought and started reading while commuting to work. Halfway through I became interested in evolutionary theory and learnt about meme. Because of so many references to Dennett’s earlier book I put it aside after I finished the first two parts and I think I come back to the last third one called “Religion Today” after I finish “Darwin’s Dangerous Idea” book.

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

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