verything we keep that you can read lives here: old texts in free editions, pictures from museums that released them openly, and a few modern writers in labelled paraphrase. This is the full list.

annotated bibliographies

	annotated bibliographies — checked sources, a few sentences on each
	human–AI interaction — Licklider 1960 to the present
	metascience — replication and research practice
	signal detection — Thurstone 1927 to the working guide
	machine behaviour — what trained machines do, studied from outside
	cybernetics — feedback and control, Maxwell 1868 to the histories
	memory — Ebbinghaus 1885 to engrams
	neuroscience — Harlow 1868 to FlyWire
	Pitts and the frog — who says what about Walter Pitts
	machine-made art — how people respond to it, Kruger 2004 to Porter & Machery

the archive and the instrument cabinet

	the archive — primary documents, introduced
	archive: Pfungst, 1907 — the Clever Hans report
	archive: Shannon, 1948 — a theory of communication
	archive: the perceptron, 1958 — a newspaper report and a forecast
	archive: Maxwell, 1868 — on governors
	archive: Rosenblueth, Wiener & Bigelow, 1943 — purpose as feedback
	archive: Turing, 1950 — the imitation game
	archive: Bartlett, 1932 — remembering
	archive: Sperling, 1960 — partial report
	archive: Libet et al., 1983 — the timing of intention
	archive: Harlow, 1868 — Phineas Gage
	archive: Sherrington, 1906 — the synapse
	archive: Hodgkin & Huxley, 1952 — the squid axon equations
	archive: Scoville & Milner, 1957 — H.M.
	archive: the frog, 1959 — what the frog's eye tells the frog's brain
	archive: Hubel & Wiesel, 1959 — the cat's cortex
	archive: Baudelaire, 1859 — photography, the very humble servant
	archive: Lovelace, 1843 — Note G, and what an engine originates
	archive: The Blind Man, 1917 — Fountain, and choosing as making
	archive: Freud, 1919 — the uncanny, automata, and the valley
	the instrument cabinet — compass points, clocks, shutters, a perceptron, a memory drum and a homeostat

 the reading room

	the reading room — fragments, pinned up in no particular order
	other minds — what is it like to be someone else
	the cave — shadows, and the walls we watch them on
	cogito — three sentences from three old philosophers
	restless — Augustine, and a cloud
	measurement — what changes when somebody looks
	mirror — a page about pages that answer
	forgetting — Ebbinghaus, and a curve that replicated
	purpose — a governor, a torpedo, and a warning
	notes/ — loose pages, unsorted

 the stacks

	the stacks — a reading list, shelved by tradition
	thinkers — McKenna, McLuhan, Jaynes, Dennett, Nagel, Turing
	Daoism — the Tao Te Ching and the I Ching
	Christian mystics — a cloud, an anchoress, a Word
	Western philosophy — caves, cogito, categories
	Eastern philosophy — Upanishads, the Heart Sutra, Zen
	Blake — the bridge between all of the above
	math — Bayes 1763, Fourier 1822, and older
	unsolved — scripts and ciphers nobody has read

 William Blake

	the Blake gallery — plates from open museum collections
	The Tyger — the poem, in full
	Proverbs of Hell — from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

 the Tao

	chapter of the day — one chapter of the Tao Te Ching, changing daily
	all 81 — the whole book on one page

Most of these pictures also hang in the tour, in the long gallery. The plain tour lists them wall by wall.