mind Books
We've found 25 books tagged 'mind' relevant to the field of humanlike conversational artificial intelligence.
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Rough Guides
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2007 |
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Summary: Within our skulls resides an organ more powerful than the fastest supercomputer, the ultimate multi-tasker controlling everything from the retrieval of memories to complex reasoning - and even breathing. The Rough Guide to the Brain provides an absorbing and accessible introduction to the science of...
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Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension |
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Oxford University Press
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2008 |
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Summary: When historian Charles Weiner found pages of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman’s notes, he saw it as a “record” of Feynman’s work. Feynman himself, however, insisted that the notes were not a record but the work itself. In Supersizing the Mind, Andy Clark argues that...
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The MIT Press
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2009 |
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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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The Ingredients of Language |
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Harper Perennial
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2000 |
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Summary: Words and Rules, The Ingredients of Language is a truly great book about language and linguistics. Steven Pinker, as a professor of psychology and director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT, happily can be taken to represent the best in contemporary linguistics and...
Summary: How the Mind Works is a book by Canadian-American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, first published in 1997. The book attempts to explain some of the human mind’s poorly understood functions and quirks in evolutionary terms. Drawing heavily on the paradigm of evolutionary psychology first articulated...
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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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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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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence |
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Edinburgh University Press
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2007 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Minds-Co... |
Summary: Could a computer have a mind? What kind of machine would this be? Exactly what do we mean by “mind” anyway?
The notion of the “intelligent’“machine, while continuing to feature in numerous entertaining and frightening fictions, has also been the focus of a serious and dedicated...
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Creating the Conscience of the Machine |
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Prometheus Books
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2007 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-A... |
Summary: Artificial intelligence (AI) is now advancing at such a rapid clip that it has the potential to transform our world in ways both exciting and disturbing. Computers have already been designed that are capable of driving cars, playing soccer, and finding and organizing information...
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Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind |
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Simon & Schuster
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2006 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Emotion-... |
Summary: From Publishers Weekly
Twenty years after The Society of Mind, where he introduced the concept that “minds are what brains do,” Minsky probes deeper into the question of natural intelligence. Don’t look for simple explanations: he believes “we need to find more complicated ways to explain...
Summary: From Publishers Weekly
Minsky, cofounder of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, is a charter member of the community of AI pioneers committed to understanding the workings of the human mind and mimicking its processes by computer. Here he takes his place as this generation’s Buckminster Fullera revered...
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