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How the Mind Comes into Being - Introducing Cognitive Science from a Functional and Computational Perspective (Paperback)
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How the Mind Comes into Being - Introducing Cognitive Science from a Functional and Computational Perspective (Paperback)
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More than 2000 years ago Greek philosophers were pondering the
puzzling dichotomy between our physical bodies and our seemingly
non-physical minds. Yet even today, it remains puzzling how our
mind controls our body, and vice versa, how our body shapes our
mind. How is it that we can think highly abstract thoughts,
seemingly fully detached from the actual, physical reality? This
book offers an interdisciplinary introduction to embodied cognitive
science, addressing the question of how the mind comes into being
while actively interacting with and learning from the environment
by means of the own body. By pursuing a functional and
computational perspective, concrete answers are provided about the
fundamental mechanisms and developing structures that must bring
the mind about, taking into account insights from biology,
neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy as well as from computer
science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The book
provides introductions to the most important challenges and
available computational approaches on how the mind comes into
being. The book includes exercises, helping the reader to grasp the
material and understand it in a broader context. References to
further studies, methodological details, and current developments
support more advanced studies beyond the covered material. While
the book is written in advanced textbook style with the primary
target group being undergraduates in cognitive science and related
disciplines, readers with a basic scientific background and a
strong interest in how the mind works will find this book
intriguing and revealing.
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