Author: Joel N. ShurkinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Engines of the Mind
Author: Joel N. ShurkinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Engines of the Mind
Author: Joel N. ShurkinPublisher: Pocket Books
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Engines of the Mind
Author: Joel N. ShurkinPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393314717
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
An introduction to the feuding researchers and inventors who made the computer possible, from the huge early models to the creation of the microchip and beyond. It discusses John Mauchly and Presper Eckert who developed the Electric Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) during World War II.
Passionate Engines
Author: Craig DeLanceyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019517366X
Category : Artificial intelligence
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Craig DeLancey shows that our best philosophical and scientific understanding of the emotions provides essential insights on key issues in the philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence : intentionality, aesthetics, rationality, action theory, moral psychology, consciousness, ontology, and autonomy. The book also offers new ways to understand the mind, suggesting that it is autonomy--and not cognition--that should be the core problem of the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. He argues that the philosophy of mind has been held back by an impoverished view of naturalism, and that a proper appreciation of the complexity of the sciences of mind, readily demonstrated by the science of emotion, will overcome this. -- Provided by publisher.
Associative Engines
Author: Andy ClarkPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262032100
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Clark charts a fundamental shift from a static, inner-code-oriented conception of the subject matter of cognitive science to a more dynamic, developmentally rich, process-oriented view.
Mind and Body
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Category : Physical education and training
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Attentional Engines
Author: William P. SeeleyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190662166
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
What is it about art that can be so captivating? How is it that we find value in the often odd and abstract objects and events we call artworks? William P. Seeley proposes that artworks are attentional engines. They are artifacts that have been intentionally designed to direct attention to critical stylistic features that reveal their point, purpose, or meaning. In developing this view, Seeley argues that there is a lot we can learn about the value of art from interdisciplinary research focused on our perceptual engagement with artworks. Recent breakthroughs in cognitive science and behavioral science can explain how we recognize artworks and how we differentiate them from more quotidian artifacts. Seeley pushes this line of reasoning, showing how cognitive science can help reveal the way artworks function as a unique source of value. He argues that our interactions with artworks draw on a broad base of shared artistic and cultural norms constitutive of different categories of art. Cognitive systems integrate this information into our experience of art, guiding attention and shaping what we perceive. Our understanding and appreciation of artworks is therefore carried in our perceptual experience of them. Attentional Engines explores the pitfalls and potential of this interdisciplinary strategy for understanding art. It articulates a cognitivist theory of art grounded in perceptual psychology and neuroscience and demonstrates its application to a range of puzzles in the philosophy of the arts. This includes questions about the nature of depiction, the role played by metakinesis in dance appreciation, the nature of musical expression, and the power of movies. The interdisciplinary and provocative theories Seeley presents will appeal to scholars and students interested in aesthetics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of art, and cognitive science.
Engines of Creation
Author: Eric DrexlerPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385199732
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This brilliant work heralds the new age of nanotechnology, which will give us thorough and inexpensive control of the structure of matter. Drexler examines the enormous implications of these developments for medicine, the economy, and the environment, and makes astounding yet well-founded projections for the future.
The Engines of the Soul
Author: W. D. HartPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521342902
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This study is an unusual contribution to the philosophy of mind in that it argues for the sometimes unfashionable view of dualism: that mind and matter are distinct and separate entities as Descartes believed. The author takes as his point of departure the imaginative hypothesis of disembodiment, which establishes the possibility of the mind's being a quite non-material thing. There are clear casual correlations between what is physical and what is mental, and the most serious issue confronting dualism since Descartes has been how such an interaction is possible. Dr Hart sets out to answer this question by showing that the issue is as much about the nature of causation as it is about the natures of mind and matter.
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