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Title: HOW TO BUILD A MIND
TOWARD MACHINES WITH IMAGINATION
By: Igor Aleksander
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0231120133
ISBN 13: 9780231120135
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 15 October, 2003
Series: Maps of the Mind
Pages: 192
Description: Offering an understanding of consciousness, this book shows how the work with artificial neural systems suggests that an artificial form of consciousness is possible, and also that its design would clarify the concept of consciousness. It also looks at the presentation of "self" in robots, the learning of language, and the nature of emotion.
Synopsis: Igor Aleksander heads a major British team that has applied engineering principles to the understanding of the human brain and has built several pioneering machines, culminating in MAGNUS, which he calls a machine with imagination. When he asks it (in words) to produce an image of a banana that is blue with red spots, the image appears on the screen in seconds. The idea of such an apparently imaginative, even conscious machine seems heretical and its advocates are often accused of sensationalism, arrogance, or philosophical ignorance. Part of the problem, according to Aleksander, is that consciousness remains ill-defined.Interweaving anecdotes from his own life and research with imagined dialogues between historical figures-including Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein, Francis Crick, and Steven Pinker-Aleksander leads readers toward an understanding of consciousness. He shows not only how the latest work with artificial neural systems suggests that an artificial form of consciousness is possible but also that its design would clarify many of the puzzles surrounding the murky concept of consciousness itself. The book also looks at the presentation of "self" in robots, the learning of language, and the nature of emotion, will, instinct, and feelings.
Illustrations: 3 illus
Publication: US
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Returns: Returnable
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