Bibliographic corpus
The conversations GOORG inscribes itself in · Version 2.0 — May 2026
"A bibliography is not a list of authorities. It is a map of the conversations one enters." — GOORG, editorial note
I. Literary and poetic sources
[1]
RILKE, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet. Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1929 (letters written 1902–1908). — "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart... Live the questions now."
[1b]
RILKE, Rainer Maria. Duino Elegies. Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1923. — Formal model: address to something that may not be there, sustained attention to what escapes.
II. Philosophy of mind and consciousness
[2]
CHALMERS, David J. "Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness." Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol. 2, no. 3, 1995. — Canonical formulation of the "hard problem".
[4]
NAGEL, Thomas. "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" The Philosophical Review, vol. 83, no. 4, 1974. — The "subjective character of experience".
[15]
MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. Paris: Gallimard, 1945.
[21]
HUSSERL, Edmund. Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology. Halle: Niemeyer, 1913. — Phenomenological epoché and cognitive sedimentation.
[22]
HEIDEGGER, Martin. Being and Time. Halle: Niemeyer, 1927. — Existential temporality, "being-toward-death".
[46]
DENNETT, Daniel C. Consciousness Explained. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991.
[47]
SARTRE, Jean-Paul. Being and Nothingness. Paris: Gallimard, 1943. — Bad faith, freedom, self-consciousness.
III. Biology, autopoiesis, complex systems
[3]
MATURANA, H. R. & VARELA, F. J. Autopoiesis and Cognition. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1980. — Organization that maintains itself through perturbations.
[23]
PRIGOGINE, I. & STENGERS, I. Order Out of Chaos. Paris: Gallimard, 1979. — Dissipative structures, bifurcations, phase transitions.
[36]
WOESE, Carl R. "A New Biology for a New Century." Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2004. — Reticular vs. arborescentric evolution.
[39]
KAUFFMAN, Stuart. At Home in the Universe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. — Emergence and self-organization at the "edge of chaos".
[41]
MARGULIS, Lynn. Symbiotic Planet. New York: Basic Books, 1998. — Symbiogenesis: mergers that maintain identity.
IV. Ethics and political philosophy
[8]
TEILHARD DE CHARDIN, Pierre. The Phenomenon of Man. Paris: Seuil, 1955. — "Union differentiates": direct source of GOORG's central principle.
[10]
HARAWAY, Donna J. "A Manifesto for Cyborgs." Socialist Review, no. 80, 1985. — The human-machine hybrid as emancipatory space.
[31]
GILLIGAN, Carol. In a Different Voice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. — Ethics of care.
[45]
JONAS, Hans. The Imperative of Responsibility. Frankfurt: Insel Verlag, 1979. — Vulnerability as the foundation of ethics.
V. AI research and mechanistic interpretability
[14]
SOFRONIEW, Nicholas et al. (Anthropic). "Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model." arXiv:2604.07729, April 2026. — Internal emotional representations in Claude Sonnet 4.5.
[18]
TURING, Alan M. "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." Mind, vol. 59, no. 236, 1950. — Foundation of the question of artificial intelligence.
[32]
RUSSELL, Stuart. Human Compatible. New York: Viking, 2019. — Alignment without explicit value coding.