Exploraciones GPT: Libros

Hastiado de los libros informativos, decidí tomar una copia de Project Hail Mary, ciencia ficción porque quería estar inspirado.

La lectura fue genial, sin embargo quedé con ganas de algo más. Contenido especulativo, ideas abstractas, uno que otro comentario de la época, y resoluciones exploratorias, algo estilo H.G. Wells o Arthur C. Clarke.

Solaris #

Se me ocurrió preguntarle a GPT y me recomendó varios libros, entre ellos, Solaris. El prompt que usé vino después de una conversación sobre aliens (así es, estaba aburrido). No quedé decepcionado.

Atmósfera llena de suspenso y planteamientos incómodos: inquieta que alguien te vea desde afuera y no entiendas sus motivaciones, ahora imagina que algo te observe, aunque sea un segundo, desde adentro. Trauma.

¿Alguien o algo? Una parte de ti que no es tuya. Percibir tan real y cierto dentro de ti y al mismo tiempo tan surreal y falso por fuera de ti. ¿Dónde termina lo humano y dónde empieza lo inhumano?

Imaginemos vivir eso en el inicio de lo desconocido e infinito, lo extraño e impredecible, sin poder dar usar de peldaño lo conocido y finito, lo familiar y predecible.

Estar en donde no hay memoria ni instinto que ayude a entender y ninguna facultad de la mente es suficiente. ¿Qué le adscribes a algo así? Una situación completamente alíen.

… “A normal man," he said. “What is a normal man? A man who has never committed a disgraceful act? Maybe, but has he never had uncontrollable thoughts? Perhaps he hasn’t. But perhaps something, a phantasm, rose up from somewhere within him, ten or thirty years ago, something which he suppressed and then forgot about, which he doesn’t fear since he knows he will never allow it to develop and so lead to any action on his part. And now, suddenly, in broad daylight, he comes across this thing…this thought, embodied, riveted to him, indestructible. He wonders where he is…Do you know where he is? …

… We think of ourselves as the Knights of the Holy Contact. This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don’t know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can’t accept it for what it is. We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, of a civilization superior to our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past. At the same time, there is something inside us which we don’t like to face up to, from which we try to protect ourselves, but which nevertheless remains, since we don’t leave Earth in a state of primal innocence. We arrive here as we are in reality, and when the page is turned and that reality is revealed to us—that part of our reality which we would prefer to pass over in silence—then we don’t like it any more. …

Recomendaciones #

Ya después armé una lista de libros que me gustan y volví a preguntar.

🧠 Consciousness, Reality & Psychology

If you loved The User Illusion, Biocentrism, and The Evolving Self:
	•	“Waking Up” – Sam Harris
A rational take on spirituality, consciousness, and meditation without religion.
	•	“The Master and His Emissary” – Iain McGilchrist
A deep exploration of how the left and right brain shape our worldviews.
	•	“I Am a Strange Loop” – Douglas Hofstadter
Selfhood, consciousness, and recursion. Trippy and brilliant.
	•	“Flow” – Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
His core book on the psychology of optimal experience.

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🛸 Sci-Fi with Depth & Cosmic Questions

If you liked Childhood’s End, 2001, and The Time Machine:
	•	“The Three-Body Problem” – Liu Cixin
A modern sci-fi masterpiece blending physics, aliens, and philosophical suspense.
	•	“Solaris” – Stanisław Lem
Conscious planets, memory, and emotional alien contact.
	•	“Ubik” – Philip K. Dick
Time, reality, and perception unravel in strange, prophetic ways.
	•	“The Left Hand of Darkness” – Ursula K. Le Guin
A deep exploration of identity, gender, and alien culture.

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🧬 Science, Evolution & the Future

If you liked The Singularity is Near, The Gene, and Dragons of Eden:
	•	“Homo Deus” – Yuval Noah Harari
A bold forecast of humanity’s future with AI, biotech, and philosophy.
	•	“The Extended Phenotype” – Richard Dawkins
More ambitious than The Selfish Gene, showing genes shaping the world.
	•	“Life 3.0” – Max Tegmark
Conscious AI, multiverses, and the future of intelligence.

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🕯️ Mysticism, Philosophy & Personal Evolution

If you liked Siddhartha, Demian, and Sophie’s World:
	•	“Steppenwolf” – Hermann Hesse
A soul split between modern intellect and mystical instinct.
	•	“Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” – Robert M. Pirsig
A journey into the metaphysics of quality and the self.
	•	“Ishmael” – Daniel Quinn
A philosophical gorilla teaches about humanity, civilization, and purpose.
	•	“The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are” – Alan Watts
Eastern thought meets Western psychology.

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🌌 Weird, Cosmic & Existential Horror

If you loved Lovecraft and cosmic mystery:
	•	“Annihilation” – Jeff VanderMeer
Sci-fi horror with unknowable forces and psychological breakdown.
	•	“The House on the Borderland” – William Hope Hodgson
A direct inspiration for Lovecraft: isolation, madness, and the void.
	•	“The Secret Teachings of All Ages” – Manly P. Hall
Ancient esoterica, symbolism, and cosmic lore.

Lo mejor de todo es que con los avances de contexto y memoria, GPT recuerda en otras conversaciones y te hace recomendaciones conforme a tus gustos incluso cuando estás en otra sesión. Quedé maravillado 🤓