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Consciousness evolving /
A collection of stimulating studies on the past, the present, and the future of consciousness, Consciousness Evolving contributes to understanding some of the most important conceptual problems of our time. The advent of the modern synthesis together with the human genome project affords a platform...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Advances in consciousness research ;
v. 34. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : Turing indistinguishability and the blind watchmaker / Stevan Harnad
- Part I: Natural consciousness
- Consciousness, adaptation and epiphenomenalism / Tom Polger, Owen Flanagan
- The function of consciousness / David Cole
- Sensations and grain processes / George Graham, Terry Horgan
- Part II: Special adaptations
- Evolution, consciousness, and the language of thought / James W. Garson
- Why did evolution engineer consciousness? / Selmer Bringsjord, Ron Noel
- Nothing without mind / Stephen Clark
- Part III: Artificial consciousness
- The emergence of grounded representations : The power and limits of sensory- motor coordination / Stefano Nolfi, Oraxio Miglino
- Ago Ergo Sum / Dario Floreano
- Evolving robot consciousness : The easy problems and the rest / Inman Harvey
- Epilogue : The future with cloning: On the possibility of serial immortality / Neil Tennant.