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Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness Igor Aleksander

Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness By Igor Aleksander (Imperial College London, Uk)

Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness by Igor Aleksander


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Arguing that the neurons in our heads are the source of consciousness, this book attempts to explain how this happens. This book is also a story of a land where people think they are automata without much in the way of consciousness and what it might be like to be a conscious machine.

Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness Summary

Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness by Igor Aleksander

Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness has been written to satisfy the curiosity each and every one of us has about our own consciousness. It takes the view that the neurons in our heads are the source of consciousness and attempts to explain how this happens. Although it talks of neural networks, it explains what they are and what they do, in such a way that anyone may understand.This book is also a story. A story of a land where people think that they are automata without much in the way of consciousness, a story of cormorants and cliffs by the sea, a story of what it might be like to be a conscious machine...

Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness Reviews

"... his book provides a popular account of the problem of consciousness. It is a personal view, from the perspective of a plain-speaking and clear-sighted engineer, articulated with all the optimism and confidence that engineers need to pursue the audacious goal of designing intelligent and conscious robots ... it is more of an 'ideas' book, and was fun to read. It should be an adventure and an inspiration for the human, if not yet the robotic, mind." William Clocksin Nature, 1996 "... no one could deny that Aleksander is doing a good job in this book of rehabilitating and making accessible some of the more unreasonable, some might say unfathomable, of AI's tenets: would recommend Aleksander's book as if nothing else, an excellent primer on matters of AI consciousness and philosophy." Peter Thomas New Scientist, 1996 "... reading 'Impossible Minds' is a lot of fun, both for the variety of topics and for the controversies it touches upon. For the beginner it is a good introduction to a fast-growing discipline; for every reader it is a good starting point of healthy argument with the author's views." International Journal of Neural Systems Apr 1997

Table of Contents

Yet another book on consciousness?; who's afraid of Magnus?; neurons and thought; automata and brains; the inner eye of consciousness; who am I?; beginnings and words; give me a teddy...; qualia, instinct and emotion; what's the use of artificial minds?; Magnus 2030 AD - an interview.

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GOR002817435
9781860940309
1860940307
Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness by Igor Aleksander
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Imperial College Press
1996-08-31
368
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