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An extraordinarily wide-ranging synthesis of the most up-to-date knowledge of the human brain. The author also presents his controversial hypothesis that there is no mind' in man, only neurons, synapses, electricity, and chemistry. ...an excellent book ...
"Human beings are both fascinated and scared by the possibility that a machine can match our cognitive abilities. When Deep Blue, the first computer chess-playing by IBM was able in 1996 to win the human world champion, Garry Kasparov, under standard chess tournament time contro…
The Future of the Artificial Mind is about the social and technological challenges posed by the new wave of artificial intelligence, both from a technical and a cognitive perspective. Deep neural networks have brought about tremendous technological improvements. This renaissance…
"This book examines the latest studies and research in the fields of biopsychology and neuropsychology."--
You've probably seen it before: a human brain dramatically lit from the side, the camera circling it like a helicopter shot of Stonehenge, and a modulated baritone voice exalting the brain's elegant design in reverent tones. To which this book says: Pure nonsense. In a work at o…
"A guide to the strange and often illogical world of neural function, 'The accidental mind' shows how the brain is not an optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but rather a weird agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of…
"A guide to the strange and often illogal world of neural function, 'The accidendal mind' shows how the brain is not an optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but rather a weird agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of e…
Poverty remains an urgent crisis worldwide. In the United States, 28.6 million children live in low-income families and 12.7 million children live in poor families. In nations belonging to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (oecd), 47 million children liv…