Minds, Brains, and Computers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minds, Brains, and Computers write by Ralph Morelli. This book was released on 1992. Minds, Brains, and Computers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The basic questions addressed in this book are: what is the computational nature of cognition, and what role does it play in language and other mental processes?; What are the main characteristics of contemporary computational paradigms for describing cognition and how do they differ from each other?; What are the prospects for building cognition and how do they differ from each other?; and what are the prospects for building an artificial intelligence?
The Computer and the Mind
The Computer and the Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Computer and the Mind write by Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird. This book was released on 1988. The Computer and the Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a field choked with seemingly impenetrable jargon, Philip N. Johnson-Laird has done the impossible: written a book about how the mind works that requires no advance knowledge of artificial intelligence, neurophysiology, or psychology. The mind, he says, depends on the brain in the same way as the execution of a program of symbolic instructions depends on a computer, and can thus be understood by anyone willing to start with basic principles of computation and follow his step-by-step explanations. The author begins with a brief account of the history of psychology and the birth of cognitive science after World War II. He then describes clearly and simply the nature of symbols and the theory of computation, and follows with sections devoted to current computational models of how the mind carries out all its major tasks, including visual perception, learning, memory, the planning and control of actions, deductive and inductive reasoning, and the formation of new concepts and new ideas. Other sections discuss human communication, meaning, the progress that has been made in enabling computers to understand natural language, and finally the difficult problems of the conscious and unconscious mind, free will, needs and emotions, and self-awareness. In an envoi, the author responds to the critics of cognitive science and defends the computational view of the mind as an alternative to traditional dualism: cognitive science integrates mind and matter within the same explanatory framework. This first single-authored introduction to cognitive science will command the attention of students of cognitive science at all levels including psychologists, linguists, computer scientists, philosophers, and neuroscientists--as well as all readers curious about recent knowledge on how the mind works.
Minds, Brains, and Computers
Minds, Brains, and Computers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minds, Brains, and Computers write by Robert Cummins. This book was released on 2000. Minds, Brains, and Computers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work offers a selection of seminal papers on the foundations of cognitive science, from leading figures in artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy and cognitive psychology. Each category includes papers that show the conception in question, illustrate, interpret or criticise it.
Brain, Mind, and Computers
Brain, Mind, and Computers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brain, Mind, and Computers write by Stanley L. Jaki. This book was released on 1969. Brain, Mind, and Computers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work represents Dr. Jaki's rebuttal of contemporary claims about the existence of, or possibility for, man-made minds. His method includes a meticulously documtned survey of computer development, a review of the relevant results of brain research, and an evaluation of the accomplishments of physicalist schools in psychology, symbolic logic, and linguistics.
Minds, Brains and Science
Minds, Brains and Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minds, Brains and Science write by John R. Searle. This book was released on 1986-01-01. Minds, Brains and Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Minds, Brains and Science takes up just the problems that perplex people, and it does what good philosophy always does: it dispels the illusion caused by the specious collision of truths. How do we reconcile common sense and science? John Searle argues vigorously that the truths of common sense and the truths of science are both right and that the only question is how to fit them together. Searle explains how we can reconcile an intuitive view of ourselves as conscious, free, rational agents with a universe that science tells us consists of mindless physical particles. He briskly and lucidly sets out his arguments against the familiar positions in the philosophy of mind, and details the consequences of his ideas for the mind-body problem, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, questions of action and free will, and the philosophy of the social sciences.
