Aristotle's laptop : the discovery of our informational mind.
Aristotle's convincing philosophy is likely to have shaped (even indirectly) many of our current beliefs, prejudices and attitudes to life. This includes the way in which our mind (that is, our capacity to have private thoughts) appears to elude a scientific description. This book is about a sc...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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World Scientific Publishing Co.
2012.
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Colección: | Series on machine consciousness ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Overview: from Aristotle to the bits of an informational mind
- ch. 2. Shannon: the reluctant hero of the information age
- ch. 3. Billions of brain cells: guesses and models
- ch. 4. Imagination in the circles of a network
- ch. 5. Phenomenal information: the world and neural states
- ch. 6. Information integration: the key to consciousness?
- ch. 7. The joy of seeing: gathering visual information
- ch. 8. The informational mind: oxymoron or new science?
- ch. 9. The unconscious mind: Freud's influential vision
- ch. 10. Aristotle's living soul.