Aristotle's laptop : the discovery of our informational mind.

Aristotle's convincing philosophy is likely to have shaped (even indirectly) many of our current beliefs, prejudices and attitudes to life. This includes the way in which our mind (that is, our capacity to have private thoughts) appears to elude a scientific description. This book is about a sc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	MORTON HELEN (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	World Scientific Publishing Co. 2012.
Series:	Series on machine consciousness ; v. 1.
Subjects:	Artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence > Philosophy. Information theory. Knowledge, Theory of. Intellect. Thought and thinking. artificial intelligence. epistemology. thinking. COMPUTERS > Enterprise Applications > Business Intelligence Tools. COMPUTERS > Intelligence (AI) & Semantics. Artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence > Philosophy Information theory Intellect Knowledge, Theory of Thought and thinking
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Table of Contents:

Ch. 1. Overview: from Aristotle to the bits of an informational mind
ch. 2. Shannon: the reluctant hero of the information age
ch. 3. Billions of brain cells: guesses and models
ch. 4. Imagination in the circles of a network
ch. 5. Phenomenal information: the world and neural states
ch. 6. Information integration: the key to consciousness?
ch. 7. The joy of seeing: gathering visual information
ch. 8. The informational mind: oxymoron or new science?
ch. 9. The unconscious mind: Freud's influential vision
ch. 10. Aristotle's living soul.

Aristotle's laptop : the discovery of our informational mind.

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