Reddit mentions of How to Create a Mind

Indeed. Ray Kurzweil talks about that in this book, arguing the brain is a pattern analysing machine. As an example he tells you to try to say the alphabet backwards. Most of us will struggle with that because it is a different pattern than the one we learnt.

A book I have recently been recommended was "How to create a mind." Seems to have some bias, but has interesting takes on the subject.

I won't deny I'm fairly early on in my degree myself, but if you want what I've been using as supplementary material, here they are.

If you're looking for some code books, I suggest the big red book. That's pretty standard as the go-to Algorithms book. Fairly dry, but it the 4th edition has some good explanations of nice and efficient algorithms - plus, clean code.

Finally depending on your preferred language (I'm a C++ person myself) this book might have some relevance.