The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul

Recommended by Jonathan Zittrain, George Bemis Professor of International Law; Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources; Faculty Director of Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society; Professor of Computer Science at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government

Zittrain lists “The Mind’s I” as one of his favorite books of all time. This anthology, with commentary by the editors, is a tour de force of thinking around human and artificial intelligence, assembled at the beginning of the “AI winter” of the 1980s when interest and funding in the technology temporarily waned.

Individual essays are given thoughtful intros and outros by the editors, creating dialogue and linkages among them, resulting in a many-faceted volume in which rigor and play are mutually reinforcing.