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Kinds Of Minds - Toward An Understanding Of Consciousness (Paperback)
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Kinds Of Minds - Toward An Understanding Of Consciousness (Paperback)
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Combining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and
neurobiology, Daniel Dennett leads the reader on a fascinating
journey of inquiry, exploring such intriguing possibilities as: Can
any of us really know what is going on in someone else's mind? What
distinguishes the human mind from the minds of animals, especially
those capable of complex behaviour? If such animals, for instance,
were magically given the power of language, would their communities
evolve an intelligence as subtly discriminating as ours? Will
robots, once they have been endowed with sensory systems like those
that provide us with experience, ever exhibit the particular traits
long thought to distinguish the human mind, including the ability
to think about thinking? Dennett addresses these questions from an
evolutionary perspective. Beginning with the macromolecules of DNA
and RNA, the author shows how, step-by-step, animal life moved from
the simple ability to respond to frequently recurring environmental
conditions to much more powerful ways of beating the odds, ways of
using patterns of past experience to predict the future in
never-before-encountered situations. Whether talking about robots
whose video-camera "eyes" give us the powerful illusion that "there
is somebody in there" or asking us to consider whether spiders are
just tiny robots mindlessly spinning their webs of elegant design,
Dennett is a master at finding and posing questions sure to
stimulate and even disturb.
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