LEADER 05486nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910789348603321 005 20230802003553.0 010 $a1-283-73935-6 010 $a981-4343-50-1 035 $a(CKB)3400000000087209 035 $a(EBL)1069825 035 $a(OCoLC)819633146 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000789175 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12301380 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000789175 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10724135 035 $a(PQKB)10151157 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1069825 035 $a(WSP)00002792 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1069825 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10622819 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL405185 035 $a(EXLCZ)993400000000087209 100 $a20121129d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAristotle's laptop$b[electronic resource] $ethe discovery of our informational mind /$fIgor Aleksander, Helen Morton 210 $aSingapore $cWorld Scientific$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 225 1 $aSeries on machine consciousness ;$vvol. 1 300 $aIncludes indexes. 311 $a981-4343-49-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Foreword; Chapter 1. Overview: From Aristotle to the Bits of an Informational Mind; All Things Informational; What is Information?; Shannon and Crackly Telephone Lines and Minds; (Chapter 2. Shannon:The Reluctant Hero of the Information Age); Why Billions of Cells?; (Chapter 3. Billions of Brain Cells: Guesses and Models); The Circles of the Mind; (Chapter 4. Imagination in the Circles of a Network); Phenomenal States; (Chapter 5. Phenomenal Information:TheWorld and Neural States); Information Integration; (Chapter 6. Information Integration:The Key to Consciousness?) 327 $aThe Joy of Seeing(Chapter 7. The Joy of Seeing: Gathering Visual Information); Some Don't Like This; (Chapter 8:The Informational Mind: Oxymoron or New Science?); The Dark Submerged Layers of the Mind; (Chapter 9. The Unconscious Mind: Freud's Influential Vision); And Now For Aristotle; (Chapter 10. Aristotle's Living Soul); Chapter 2. Shannon: The Reluctant Hero of the Information Age; Brief prologue:The exemplary engineer; From Michigan to juggling machines; A quiet corner of Gaylord, Michigan; Impact at MIT; Dr Shannon - Mathematician?; The Bell Telephone Laboratories 327 $aThe need for an information theoryFun and games; The years that followed: life-like machines; Returning to academia and bowing out; Communication according to Shannon; The Bit; What is entropy and why does it matter in communications?; Communication at a distance; How much information can a channel transmit?; Channel capacity and the digital age?; Shannon and the internet; Shannon and the informational mind; Chapter 3. Billions of Brain Cells: Guesses and Models; Not neural networks 101; Where is the mind?; The fine grain of the brain; Cajal (1852-1934); The electrochemical neuron 327 $aA Logical Calculus of nervous activityWarren McCulloch; Walter Pitts (1923-1969); The logical calculus; The Consequences; Learning and adaptation; Bernard Widrow; Frank Rosenblatt (1928-1971) and his detractors; Closed paths and other escapes from objections; Spiking neurons; Weightless neurons; Example; Looking back in this chapter: Mind and the science of the day; Chapter 4. Imagination in the Circles of a Network; Neural thought: A target for this Chapter - State Structures, Not 'Cat' or 'Dog' Cells; Lashley, the Iconoclast of ancient connectionism; Donald Hebb: Nailing mind to brain 327 $aNeural (Hebbian) learningCell assemblies; The state of play after Hebb; Automata studies; Finite automata; More automata studies:The beginnings of major controversies; Neural automata theory simplified; Lessons from Moore's work; Finding inner states; Meanwhile . . . outside the US: Eduardo Caianiello; Meanwhile . . . Outside the US:Teuvo Kohonen; Back in the US . . . Stephen Grossberg; So how do neurons think?; Chapter 5. Phenomenal Information: The World and Neural States; The Inner Eye; Phenomenology; Franz Clemens Horatio Hermann Brentano (1838-1917) 327 $aEdmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (1859-1938) 330 $aAristotle's convincing philosophy is likely to have shaped (even indirectly) many of our current beliefs, prejudices and attitudes to life. This includes the way in which our mind (that is, our capacity to have private thoughts) appears to elude a scientific description. This book is about a scientific ingredient that was not available to Aristotle: the science of information. Would the course of the philosophy of the mind have been different had Aristotle pronounced that the matter of mind was information? This "mind is information" assertion is often heard in contemporary debates, and this b 410 0$aSeries on machine consciousness ;$vv. 1. 606 $aArtificial intelligence$xPhilosophy 606 $aInformation theory 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of 615 0$aArtificial intelligence$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aInformation theory. 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of. 676 $a128.2 700 $aAleksander$b Igor$052652 701 $aMorton$b Helen$049427 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789348603321 996 $aAristotle's laptop$93720424 997 $aUNINA