On improving comprehension and intuition:
- Simulation and its Discontents - Sherry Turkle
- The Early History Of Smalltalk - Alan Kay
- Augmenting Human Intellect - Douglas Engelbart
- A bicycle for the mind, redux - Alan Kay (as interviewed by Judy Schester)
- "Is this the civilization we really want" Bret Victor's response to the Augment Human Intelligence paper (2017)
- Realtalk's Relationship to AI - Bret Victor
- Mindstorms - Seymour Papert
- The Reflective Practitioner - Donald Schön
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
- Seeing Like a State - James Scott
On abstractions and simulations:
- The Nature of Code: Simulating Natural Systems with JavaScript - Daniel Schiffman
- Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter
- The Computational Beauty of Nature - Gary William Flake
- The Dream Machine - M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Biography of J.C.R. Licklider (context for Engelbart and Kay)
- Vehicles - Valentino Braitenberg
- Philosophy of Mind - Jaegwon Kim
On representations and sensory inputs:
- Explorations in the Cellular Microworld
- Poetics - Aristotle
- The Craftsman - Richard Sennett
- Where the Action Is - Paul Dourish
- The Hand (Frank R. Wilson)
- The Humane Representation of Thought
- The Future of Programming
- https://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming
- https://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction
- https://worrydream.com/KillMath
- Stop Drawing Dead Fish
- Media for Thinking the Unthinkable
- A brief rant on the future of interaction design
- Seeing Spaces
- Drawing Dynamic Visualizations
- Bret Victor
On language, plurality and extinction of thought:
- Metaphors We Live By - Lakoff and Johnson
- Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Another side of the argument:
- Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence - Shan Carter, Michael Nielsen
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