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9780465073511: Kinds Of Minds
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ISBN 10 : 0465073514 ISBN 13 : 9780465073511
Editeur : Basic Books, 1997

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Daniel C. Dennett is Distinguished Arts and Sciences Professor, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University.

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Éditeur
Basic Books
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0465073514
ISBN 13 
9780465073511
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780465073504: Kinds Of Minds: Toward An Understanding Of Consciousness

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0465073506 ISBN 13 :  9780465073504
Editeur : Basic Books, 1996
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