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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...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: MORTON HELEN (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: World Scientific Publishing Co. 2012.
Collection:Series on machine consciousness ; v. 1.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 scientific ingredient that was not available to Aristotle: the science of information. Would the course of the philosophy of the mind have been different had Aristotle pronounced that the matter of mind was information?
Description matérielle:1 online resource.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789814343503
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