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Computing the mind : how the mind really works / Shimon Edelman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edelman, Shimon, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cognition.
- Computational neuroscience.
- Thought and thinking--Mathematical models.
- Thought and thinking.
- Mental Processes--physiology.
- Brain--physiology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Mental Processes--physiology.
- Brain--physiology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (628 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In a culmination of humanity's millennia-long quest for self knowledge, the sciences of the mind are now in a position to offer concrete, empirically validated answers to the most fundamental questions about human nature. What does it mean to be a mind? How is the mind related to the brain? How are minds shaped by their embodiment and environment? What are the principles behind cognitive functions such as perception, memory, language, thought, and consciousness? By analyzing the tasks facing any sentient being that is subject to stimulation and a pressure to act, Shimon Edelman identifies comp
- Contents:
- Brains, minds, and numbers
- Computing minds
- Computing brains
- The astonishing hypothesis
- Perception
- Memory
- Language
- Thinking
- Being no one
- Imagine
- The mind in the act of finding.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-773506-1
- 1-282-97777-6
- 9786612977770
- 0-19-971763-X
- OCLC:
- 701718589
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