I’m trying to dive into neural networks, and in preparation am reading a bit about modern theories on thought and inteligence. To start things off, I’m reading William Calvin’s How Brains Think.

With a great deal of historical and theoretical background in the first few chapters, Calvin eventually dives into his own theories on thought; namely that it is the result of evolution-like processes that occur in our brains over the briefest of time periods. This is pretty fascinating stuff.

His Website is pretty decent, as well, apart from the Comic Sans. It seems like some of his more recent work has focused on creativity. After I finish the book, I’ll probably dive into his awfully gaudy Powerpoint presentation, titled “Cerebral Circuits for Creativity: Bootstrapping Coherence using a Darwin Machine.” Man, I’m a dork.