Download or read book The Process of Thought Adapted to Words and Language Together with a Description of the Relational and Differential Machines written by Alfred SMEE (F.R.S., Surgeon to the Bank of England.) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Process of Thought Adapted to Words and Language written by Alfred Smee and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London written by Royal Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London written by Royal Society (London) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mind as Machine written by Margaret A. Boden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive science is among the most fascinating intellectual achievements of the modern era. The quest to understand the mind is an ancient one. But modern science has offered new insights and techniques that have revolutionized this enquiry. Oxford University Press now presents a masterlyhistory of the field, told by one of its most eminent practitioners.Psychology is the thematic heart of cognitive science, which aims to understand human (and animal) minds. But its core theoretical ideas are drawn from cybernetics and artificial intelligence, and many cognitive scientists try to build functioning models of how the mind works. In that sense,Margaret Boden suggests, its key insight is that mind is a (very special) machine. Because the mind has many different aspects, the field is highly interdisciplinary. It integrates psychology not only with cybernetics/AI, but also with neuroscience and clinical neurology; with the philosophy ofmind, language, and logic; with linguistic work on grammar, semantics, and communication; with anthropological studies of cultures; and with biological (and A-Life) research on animal behaviour, evolution, and life itself. Each of these disciplines, in its own way, asks what the mind is, what itdoes, how it works, how it develops---and how it is even possible.Boden traces the key questions back to Descartes's revolutionary writings, and to the ideas of his followers--and his radical critics--through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her story shows how controversies in the development of experimental physiology, neurophysiology, psychology,evolutionary biology, embryology, and logic are still relevant today. Then she guides the reader through the complex interlinked paths along which the study of mind developed in the twentieth century. Cognitive science covers all mental phenomena: not just 'cognition' (knowledge), but also emotion,personality, psychopathology, social communication, religion, motor action, and consciousness. In each area, Boden introduces the key ideas and researchers and discusses those philosophical critics who see cognitive science as fundamentally misguided. And she sketches the waves of resistance andacceptance on the part of the media and general public, showing how these have affected the development of the field.No one else could tell this story as Boden can: she has been a member of the cognitive science community since the late-1950s, and has known many of its key figures personally. Her narrative is written in a lively, swift-moving style, enriched by the personal touch of someone who knows the story atfirst hand. Her history looks forward as well as back: besides asking how state-of-the-art research compares with the hopes of the early pioneers, she identifies the most promising current work. Mind as Machine will be a rich resource for anyone working on the mind, in any academic discipline, whowants to know how our understanding of mental capacities has advanced over the years.
Download or read book Darwin Among The Machines written by George B. Dyson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As timely now as it was when it was first published in 1997, Darwin Among the Machines tells the story of humankind's long journey into the digital age. Historian of technology George Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives and work of visionaries -- from Thomas Hobbes to John von Neumann -- who foresaw the development of artificial intelligence, artificial life, and artificial mind. Weaving a convincing, occasionally frightening narrative of the evolution of the global network, Dyson explores the limits of Darwinian evolution to suggest what lies ahead. Computer programs and worldwide networks are combining to produce an evolutionary theater in which the distinctions between nature and technology are increasingly obscured, he argues. We are living in the midst of an experiment -- one that echoes the prehistory of human intelligence and the origins of life. Now in a new paperback edition, this classic work on the emergence of collective mechanical intelligence will resonate for generations to come.
Download or read book The Principles of Science written by William Stanley Jevons and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence written by David W. Bates and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-04-05 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines. We imagine that we are both in control of and controlled by our bodies—autonomous and yet automatic. This entanglement, according to David W. Bates, emerged in the seventeenth century when humans first built and compared themselves with machines. Reading varied thinkers from Descartes to Kant to Turing, Bates reveals how time and time again technological developments offered new ways to imagine how the body’s automaticity worked alongside the mind’s autonomy. Tracing these evolving lines of thought, An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence offers a new theorization of the human as a being that is dependent on technology and produces itself as an artificial automaton without a natural, outside origin.
Download or read book The Mind of Man written by Alfred Smee and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Books Recently Added to the Public Library Melbourne written by Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery of Victoria (MELBOURNE) and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mind of Man Being a Natural System of Mental Philosophy Illustrated Etc written by Alfred SMEE (F.R.S., Surgeon to the Bank of England.) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Idea of the Brain written by Matthew Cobb and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize A New Statesman Book of the Year This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as a telephone switchboard, or a clock, or all manner of fantastic mechanical or hydraulic devices. Could the right metaphor unlock the its deepest secrets once and for all? Galloping through centuries of wild speculation and ingenious, sometimes macabre anatomical investigations, scientist and historian Matthew Cobb reveals how we came to our present state of knowledge. Our latest theories allow us to create artificial memories in the brain of a mouse, and to build AI programmes capable of extraordinary cognitive feats. A complete understanding seems within our grasp. But to make that final breakthrough, we may need a radical new approach. At every step of our quest, Cobb shows that it was new ideas that brought illumination. Where, he asks, might the next one come from? What will it be?
Download or read book The Eye in Health and Disease Second Edition to which is Appended a Paper on the Stereoscope and Binocular Perspective written by Alfred SMEE (F.R.S., Surgeon to the Bank of England.) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
