The Mind and the Machine - 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 Mind and the Machine write by Matthew T. Dickerson. This book was released on 2016-07-29. The Mind and the Machine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Are humans just complex biochemical machines, mere physical parts of a causally closed materialist universe? Are we approaching the so-called "Singularity" when human consciousness can (and will) be downloaded into computers? Or is there more to the human person--something that might be known as soul or spirit? As this book makes clear, the answers to these questions have profound implications to topics such as heroism, creativity, ecology, and the possibility of reason and science. In exploring this important topic, Dickerson engages the ideas of some well-known twentieth- and twenty-first-century espousers of physicalism, including philosopher Daniel Dennett (Consciousness Explained), biologist Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion), futurist-engineer Raymond Kurzweil (The Age of Spiritual Machines), psychologist B. F. Skinner (Beyond Freedom and Dignity), and mathematician-philosopher Bertrand Russell (Why I Am Not a Christian). Through a careful reading of their works, Dickerson not only provides a five-fold critique of physicalism, but also offers a Christian alternative in the form of "integrative dualism," which affirms the existence of both a physical and spiritual reality without diminishing the goodness or importance of either, and acknowledges that humans are spiritual as well as bodily persons.
Mind and Machine
Mind and Machine - 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 Mind and Machine write by J. Walmsley. This book was released on 2016-04-30. Mind and Machine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Walmsley offers a succinct introduction to major philosophical issues in artificial intelligence for advanced students of philosophy of mind, cognitive science and psychology. Whilst covering essential topics, it also provides the student with the chance to engage with cutting edge debates.
In the Mind of the Machine
In the Mind of the Machine - 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 In the Mind of the Machine write by K. Warwick. This book was released on 1998. In the Mind of the Machine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kevin Warwick has created robots with the brain power of a wasp, and may soon have built robots which are not only more intelligent than humans in some ways, but also superior in their practical skills. In this book he argues that humans may be at the mercy of these life forms, and be treated in the same way as humans treat animals today. He proposes that there is an urgent need for an anti-proliferation treaty to prevent these and other even more horrifying scenarios.
Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time - 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 Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time write by Dean Buonomano. This book was released on 2017-04-04. Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Beautifully written, eloquently reasoned…Mr. Buonomano takes us off and running on an edifying scientific journey." —Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, leading neuroscientist Dean Buonomano embarks on an "immensely engaging" exploration of how time works inside the brain (Barbara Kiser, Nature). The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells time, but creates it; it constructs our sense of chronological movement and enables "mental time travel"—simulations of future and past events. These functions are essential not only to our daily lives but to the evolution of the human race: without the ability to anticipate the future, mankind would never have crafted tools or invented agriculture. This virtuosic work of popular science will lead you to a revelation as strange as it is true: your brain is, at its core, a time machine.
Mind Over Machine
Mind Over Machine - 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 Mind Over Machine write by Hubert Dreyfus. This book was released on 1986. Mind Over Machine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Human intuition and perception are basic and essential phenomena of consciousness. As such, they will never be replicated by computers. This is the challenging notion of Hubert Dreyfus, Ph. D., archcritic of the artificial intelligence establishment. It's important to emphasize that he doesn't believe that AI is fundamentally impossible, only that the current research program is fatally flawed. Instead, he argues that to get a device (or devices) with human-like intelligence would require them to have a human-like being in the world, which would require them to have bodies more or less like ours, and social acculturation (i.e. a society) more or less like ours. This helps to explain the practical problems in implementing artificial intelligence algorithms.
