Computing the Mind How the Mind Really Works

Name: Computing the Mind How the Mind Really Works
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ISBN: 9780195320671

ISBN-10: 0195320670

ISBN-13: 9780195320671

Edition: 2008

Authors: Shimon Edelman

List price: $115.00

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In a culmination of humanity's millennia-long quest for self knowledge, the sciences of the mind are now in a position to offer concrete, empirically validated answers to the most fundamental questions about human nature. What does it mean to be a mind? How is the mind related to the brain? How are minds shaped by their embodiment and environment? What are the principles behind cognitive functions such as perception, memory, language, thought, and consciousness? By analyzing the tasks facing any sentient being that is subject to stimulation and a pressure to act, Shimon Edelman identifies computation as the common denominator in the emerging answers to all these questions. Any system…

Book details

List price: $115.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/8/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 640
Size: 9.10" wide x 8.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.234
Language: English




Foundations



Brains, minds, and numbers



Computing minds



Computing brains



The astonishing hypothesis



Faculties



Perception



Memory



Language



Thinking



Finale



Being no one



Imagine



The mind in the act of finding



Bayesian inference and decision making



Mind the gap


Bibliography


Credits


Index