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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Harpercollins
Publication date
June 1, 1996
Pages
184
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780465073504
ISBN-10
0465073506
Dimensions
0.50 by 6.25 by 9.75 in.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$20.00
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Using the disciplines of philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, the author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea discusses theories about how our minds and other animal's minds work while developing his own evolutionary perspective on how our minds operate.
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
Combining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, Daniel Dennett leads the reader on a fascinating journey of inquiry, exploring such intriguing possibilities as: Can any of us really know what is going on in someone else's mind? What distinguishes the human mind from the minds of animals, especially those capable of complex behavior? If such animals, for instance, were magically given the power of language, would their communities evolve an intelligence as subtly discriminating as ours? Will robots, once they have been endowed with sensory systems like those that provide us with experience, ever exhibit the particular traits long thought to distinguish the human mind, including the ability to think about thinking? Dennett addresses these questions from an evolutionary perspective. Beginning with the macromolecules of DNA and RNA, the author shows how, step-by-step, animal life moved from the simple ability to respond to frequently recurring environmental conditions to much more powerful ways of beating the odds, ways of using patterns of past experience to predict the future in never-before-encountered situations. Whether talking about robots whose video-camera ”eyes” give us the powerful illusion that ”there is somebody in there” or asking us to consider whether spiders are just tiny robots mindlessly spinning their webs of elegant design, Dennett is a master at finding and posing questions sure to stimulate and even disturb.
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9780465073504 | details & prices | 184 pages | 6.25 × 9.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $20.00
About: Using the disciplines of philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, the author discusses theories about how our minds and animals' minds work while developing his own evolutionary perspective on how our minds operate
About: Using the disciplines of philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, the author discusses theories about how our minds and animals' minds work while developing his own evolutionary perspective on how our minds operate
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