Impossible minds : my neurons, my consciousness /
Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness has been written to satisfy the curiosity each and every one of us has about our own consciousness. It takes the view that the neurons in our heads are the source of consciousness and attempts to explain how this happens. Although it talks of neural net...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London : River Edge, NJ :
Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co.,
©1996.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness has been written to satisfy the curiosity each and every one of us has about our own consciousness. It takes the view that the neurons in our heads are the source of consciousness and attempts to explain how this happens. Although it talks of neural networks, it explains what they are and what they do, in such a way that anyone may understand. This book is also a story. A story of a land where people think that they are automata without much in the way of consciousness, a story of cormorants and cliffs by the sea, a story of what it might be like to be a conscious machine ... |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 347 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-336) and index. |
ISBN: | 1860944043 9781860944048 |