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A Theory of Immediate Awareness - Self-Organization and Adaptation in Natural Intelligence (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
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A Theory of Immediate Awareness - Self-Organization and Adaptation in Natural Intelligence (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
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This book is multi- and interdisciplinary in both scope and
content. It draws upon philosophy, the neurosciences, psychology,
computer science, and engineering in efforts to resolve fundamental
issues about the nature of immediate awareness. Approximately the
first half of the book is addressed to historical approaches to the
question whether or not there is such a thing as immediate
awareness, and if so, what it might be. This involves reviewing
arguments that one way or another have been offered as answers to
the question or ways of avoiding it. It also includes detailed
discussions of some complex questions about the part immediate
awareness plays in our over-all natural intelligence. The second
half of the book addresses intricate and complex issues involved in
the computability of immediate awareness as it is found in simple,
ordinary things human beings know how to do, as weIl as in some
highly extraordinary things some know how to do. Over the past
2,500 years, human culture has discovered, created, and built very
powerful tools for recognizing, classifying, and utilizing patterns
found in the natural world. The most powerful of those tools is
mathematics, the language of nature. The natural phenomenon of
human knowing, of natural intelligence generally, is a very richly
textured set of patterns that are highly complex, dynamic,
self-organizing, and adaptive.
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