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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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New Jersey :
Imperial College Press,
2015.
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| Edición: | Revised edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Who's afraid of Magnus? Artificial consciousness: the very idea!
- ch. 2. Neurons and thought. The basic guess. Defining my own consciousness. The consciousness of others. The power of modelling. The Danger of inappropriate modelling. Why neurons? The mind's eye. Learning and remembering. In a nutshell ... Philosophy and consciousness. Penrose. The basic guess in perspective. Postscript to chapter 2: What stuff makes me conscious? Molecula's story
- ch. 3. Automata and brains. Automata theory: mathematics anyone can do. The wheel machine. Some shorthand. Building machines with neurons. The behaviour of neural machines. The function of neurons: learning and generalisation. Learning or programming? A touch of perspective: have we lost sight of consciousness? Neuroanatomy: the shape of the brain. The cortex. The visual system. How does the brain create consciousness? The concentric theory of consciousness. The language of automata: a summary. Postscript to chapter 3: Automaton does not mean zombie. Molecula's story
- ch. 4. The inner eye of consciousness. Preamble: engineering the mind of Magnus. Designing an octopus. The daydreaming automaton. The state structure of daydreams and dreams. Learning to be conscious. Has the Cartesian theatre reopened? Postscript to chapter 4: enter phenomenology. Molecula's story
- ch. 5. Who am I? The Me in consciousness. The "self" as others see it. The psychology of self. Self, personality and state structure. An image of the future. Another brief look at sleep. The self as knowing what I can do. Will and consciousness. Will and personality. Returning to the self in philosophy and psychology. Kelly's personal state structures. So, who am I?
- Postscript to chapter 5: The challenge of 'me'. Molecula's story
- ch. 6. Beginnings and words. Setting human beings apart. Knowing the names of things. What is an object? Associating names. Where are the objects? A changing world. Concepts and logic ... More logic ... Verbs. Novelty. Abstractions and confusions. Theories of meaning. Whither the word of God? Postscript to chapter 6: Imagining the meaning of language. Molecula's story
- ch. 7. Give me a Teddy ... Battle at dawn. "Mah mah". Magnus utters its first words. "On human communication". The universality of languages. An alternative to inheritance. The effectiveness of iconic representation. Generalisation and apparent rules. Abstraction and mastery. Why no errors? A three-sided battle. Postscript to chapter 7: Acquiring language: what's new? Molecula's story
- ch. 8. Qualia, instinct and emotion. A philosopher's weapon. Qualia. Nagel's bat. Dennett's view on qualia as a philosophical blind alley. Colour vision in people. Iconic creation of qualia: an experiment in colour. The recall of qualitative sensory states. More inner sensations: emotions or instincts? Instinct. Emotions. The emotional robot. The importance of the private world. Postscript to chapter 8: Qualia and emotions as computational processes. Molecula's story
- ch. 9. What's the use of artificial minds? The human as god. The historical robot. The robot as a literary object. The robot as master of the human race. Sci-fi robots. The human machine. The influence of the computer scientist. Autonomous agents and the intelligence of an ant. Cog, the philosopher and Magnus. A proliferation of conscious robots. Philosophers and neurons. The awe and the mystery. Postscript to chapter 9: The challenge of human mentation. Molecula's story
- ch. 10. Magnus 2030 AD: an interview. Forty years. An epilogue? Postscript to chapter 10: Meeting a conscious robot. Molecula's story.