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Over the course of my years of research for this book, there were hundreds of books, papers, and journals that I read—the vast majority of which are cited in the Notes section. The works below (in alphabetical order by title) were particularly important in formulating the framework in this book.
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky
Brain Structure and Its Origins: In Development and in Evolution of Behavior and the Mind by Gerald E. Schneider
Brains Through Time: A Natural History of Vertebrates by Georg F. Striedter and R. Glenn Northcutt
Cerebral Cortex by Edmund Rolls
The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains by Joseph LeDoux
Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville
Evolution of Behavioural Control from Chordates to Primates by Paul Cisek
The Evolution of Language by W. Tecumseh Fitch
The Evolution of Memory Systems by Elisabeth A. Murray, Steven P. Wise, and Kim S. Graham
The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul: Learning and the Origins of Consciousness by Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka
Evolutionary Neuroscience by Jon H. Kaas
Fish Cognition and Behavior by Culum Brown, Kevin Laland, and Jens Krause
From Neuron to Cognition via Computation Neuroscience edited by Michael A. Arbib and James J. Bonaiuto
The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals by Thomas Suddendorf
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species by Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth
How the Brain Might Work: A Hierarchical and Temporal Model for Learning and Recognition by Dileep George
The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Forethought by Thomas Suddendorf
Language Evolution edited by Morten H. Christiansen and Simon Kirby
The Mind Within the Brain: How We Make Decisions and How Those Decisions Go Wrong by A. David Redish
The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex: Anatomy, Evolution, and the Origin of Insight by Richard E. Passingham and Steven P. Wise
Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain by Paul Glimcher and Ernst Fehr
The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World by Elkhonon Goldberg
On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto
Resynthesizing Behavior Through Phylogenetic Refinement by Paul Cisek
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can by Herbert S. Terrace
Why Only Us: Language and Evolution by Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky