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1. Cellular Automata and Complexity by Stephen Wolfram
2. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
3. Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky
4. Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern by Douglas R. Hofstadter
5. The Mathematica Book, Fifth Edition by Stephen Wolfram
6. At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity by Stuart Kauffman
7. Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity by John Holland
8. Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop
9. Chaos by James Gleick
10. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose
11. The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil
12. Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World by Kevin Kelly
13. The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics by Roger Penrose
14. Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas R. Hofstadter
15. The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul by Douglas R. Hofstadter
16. Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks by Mark Buchanan
17. The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation by William Gary Flake
18. Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means by Albert-László Barabási
19. The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoît B. Mandelbrot
20. Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven H. Strogatz

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4. The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge by William Poundstone
5. Cellular Automata Machines: A New Environment for Modeling (Scientific Computation) by Tommaso Toffoli
6. Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology by Steven Levy
7. Modeling Complex Systems (Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics) by Nino Boccara
8. Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity by John Holland
9. Cellular Automata: A Discrete Universe by Andrew Ilachinski
10. Cellular Automata by E. F. Codd
11. Essays on cellular automata by Arthur W. Burks
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3. Investigations by Stuart Kauffman (expected 2, found 44)
4. Emergence: From Chaos to Order by John Holland (expected 2.7, found 59)
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7. Fractals Everywhere by Michael Fielding Barnsley (expected 2, found 38)
8. The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind by Marvin Minsky (expected 2.2, found 42)
9. The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution by Stuart A. Kauffman (expected 2.4, found 45)
10. The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude E Shannon (expected 2, found 37)
11. Feynman Lectures on Computation by Richard P. Feynman (expected 3, found 54)
12. Where Mathematics Comes From by George Lakoff (expected 2.9, found 50)
13. The New Turing Omnibus: 66 Excursions in Computer Science by A.K. Dewdney (expected 2.1, found 34)
14. Pattern on the Stone (Science Masters) by W. Daniel Hillis (expected 2.4, found 39)
15. The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert Alexander Simon (expected 3, found 48)