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9214 · May 12, 2020
"The Myth of Sisyphus" by Alber Camus.
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"The Unwritten Laws of Engineering" by W. J. King.
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9214 · May 12, 2020
"Laws of Form" by George Spencer-Brown, a little book that describes how to bootstrap the Universe from nothing.
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9214 · May 12, 2020
There's also "Laws of the Game" by Eigen & Winkler that describes natural phenomena as glass-bead games with various rules.
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"The Protracted Game" by Scott Boorman.
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"The Unconscious as Infinite Sets" by Ignacio Matte Blanco.
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