consciousness Books
We've found 16 books tagged 'consciousness' relevant to the field of humanlike conversational artificial intelligence.
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by Ipke Wachsmuth and Günther Knoblich |
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Second ZiF Research Group International Workshop on Embodied Communication in Humans and Machines, Bielefeld, April 5-8, 2006 |
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Springer
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2008 |
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http://www.springer.com/comput... |
Summary: Two main types of embodied agents are playing an increasingly important role in cognitive interaction technology: virtual humans inhabiting simulated environments and humanoid robots inhabiting the real world. The need to develop an integrated perspective of embodiment in communication, establishing bridges between lower-level, sensorimotor functions...
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The Case Against |
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Palgrave Macmillan
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1987 |
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http://www.biblio.com/books/11... |
Summary: Intended to contribute to the advance of AI by clarifying and removing the major sources of philosophical confusion which continue to preoccupy scientists and thereby impede research… A fascinating study in the nature and future of AI, written in a style which is certain to...
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A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness |
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Oxford University Press
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1996 |
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/reade... |
Summary: In Shadows of the Mind, Penrose offers exhilarating look at modern science as he mounts an even more powerful attack on artificial intelligence. But perhaps more important, in this volume he points the way to a new science, one that may eventually explain the physical...
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Specifications of a Conscious Artifact |
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Monterège
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2011 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Creation... |
Summary: The desire to build a conscious machine lies at the heart of the human quest for knowledge. It was the original goal of Artificial Intelligence. However, this endeavor could not progress because definitions of consciousness, suitable for machine implementation, were not available. The Creation of...
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Mind-1.1 Programmer's Manual |
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Writers Club Press
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2002 |
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http://www.iuniverse.com/books... |
Summary: AI4U (artificial intelligence for you) is a snapshot of the author’s Mentifex AI project as if frozen in time in 2002. Since then the AI Mind software in both Forth and JavaScript has advanced considerably and is available free of charge on the Web. The...
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Representation and Mind |
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The MIT Press
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2005 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Action-P... |
Summary: “Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us,” writes Alva Noë. “It is something we do.” In Action in Perception, Noë argues that perception and perceptual consciousness depend on capacities for action and thought-that perception is a kind of thoughtful activity. Touch,...
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The MIT Press
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2009 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Radical-... |
Summary: While philosophers of mind have been arguing over the status of mental representations in cognitive science, cognitive scientists have been quietly engaged in studying perception, action, and cognition without explaining them in terms of mental representation. In this book, Anthony Chemero describes this nonrepresentational approach...
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Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics |
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Oxford University Press
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1989 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Emperors... |
Summary: The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics is a 1989 book by mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose.
Penrose presents the argument that human consciousness is non-algorithmic, and thus is not capable of being modeled by a conventional Turing machine-type of digital...
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by Robert Epstein, Gary Roberts and Grace Beber |
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Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer |
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Springer
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2008 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Parsing-... |
Summary: “Parsing the Turing Test” is a landmark exploration of both the philosophical and methodological issues surrounding the search for true artificial intelligence. Will computers and robots ever think and communicate the way humans do? When a computer crosses the threshold into self-consciousness, will it immediately...
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by Douglas R. Hofstadter |
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An Eternal Golden Braid |
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Basic Books
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1979 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Godel-Es... |
Summary: Douglas Hofstadter’s book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of...
