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What Is Thought? /

In What Is Thought? Eric Baum proposes a computational explanation of thought. Just as Erwin Schrodinger in his classic 1944 work What Is Life? argued ten years before the discovery of DNA that life must be explainable at a fundamental level by physics and chemistry, Baum contends that the present-d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baum, Eric B., 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
©2004
Colección:Bradford book.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. 2. Mind Is a Computer Program
  • 3. Turning Test, the Chinese Room, and What Computers Can't Do
  • 4. Occam's Razor and Understanding
  • 5. Optimization
  • 6. Remarks on Occam's Razor
  • 7. Reinforcement Learning
  • 8. Exploiting Structure
  • 9. Modules and Metaphors
  • 10. Evolutionary Programming
  • 11. Intractability
  • 12. Evolution of Learning
  • 13. Language and the Evolution of Thought
  • 14. Evolution of Consciousness
  • 15. What Is Thought
  • Notes
  • References.