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The Unexplained Intellect - Complexity, Time, and the Metaphysics of Embodied Thought (Paperback)
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The Unexplained Intellect - Complexity, Time, and the Metaphysics of Embodied Thought (Paperback)
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The relationship between intelligent systems and their environment
is at the forefront of research in cognitive science. The
Unexplained Intellect: Complexity, Time, and the Metaphysics of
Embodied Thought shows how computational complexity theory and
analytic metaphysics can together illuminate long-standing
questions about the importance of that relationship. It argues that
the most basic facts about a mind cannot just be facts about mental
states, but must include facts about the dynamic, interactive
mental occurrences that take place when a creature encounters its
environment. In a discussion that is organised into four clear
parts, Christopher Mole begins by examining the mathematics of
computational complexity, arguing that the results from complexity
theory create a puzzle about how human intelligence could possibly
be explained. Mole then uses the tools of analytic metaphysics to
draw a distinction between mental states and dynamic mental
entities, and shows that, in order to answer the
complexity-theoretic puzzle, dynamic entities must be understood to
be among the most basic of mental phenomena. The picture of the
mind that emerges has important implications for our understanding
of intelligence, of action, and of the mind's relationship to the
passage of time. The Unexplained Intellect is the first book to
bring insights from the mathematics of computational complexity to
bear in an enquiry into the metaphysics of the mind. It will be
essential reading for scholars and researchers in the philosophy of
mind and psychology, for cognitive scientists, and for those
interested in the philosophical importance of complexity.
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