I believe
human beings are pretrained agents. We spend our lives finetuning ourselves via experiences and information consumption.
We are all reward policy followers. Awareness over what your reward policy is equates to freedom.
Below is a curated list of information I’ve consumed that is weighted highly in my neural net.
TOP 7
The Evolving Self, Robert Kegan
Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe, Bob Berman and Robert Lanza
Lessons of History, Ariel Durant and Will Durant
The Moral Animal, Robert Wright
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
The Book, Alan Watts
Overcoming Evolutionary Pressures, Casey Caruso (dm for access :))