Aristotle's laptop [[electronic resource] ] : the discovery of our informational mind / / Igor Aleksander, Helen Morton |
Autore | Aleksander Igor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore, : World Scientific, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina | 128.2 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MortonHelen |
Collana | Series on machine consciousness |
Soggetto topico |
Artificial intelligence - Philosophy
Information theory Knowledge, Theory of |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-73935-6
981-4343-50-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; 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?)
The 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 The 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 A 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 Neural (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) Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (1859-1938) |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464762503321 |
Aleksander Igor | ||
Singapore, : World Scientific, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Aristotle's laptop [[electronic resource] ] : the discovery of our informational mind / / Igor Aleksander, Helen Morton |
Autore | Aleksander Igor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore, : World Scientific, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina | 128.2 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MortonHelen |
Collana | Series on machine consciousness |
Soggetto topico |
Artificial intelligence - Philosophy
Information theory Knowledge, Theory of |
ISBN |
1-283-73935-6
981-4343-50-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; 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?)
The 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 The 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 A 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 Neural (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) Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (1859-1938) |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789348603321 |
Aleksander Igor | ||
Singapore, : World Scientific, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Aristotle's laptop : the discovery of our informational mind / / Igor Aleksander, Helen Morton |
Autore | Aleksander Igor |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore, : World Scientific, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina | 128.2 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MortonHelen |
Collana | Series on machine consciousness |
Soggetto topico |
Artificial intelligence - Philosophy
Information theory Knowledge, Theory of |
ISBN |
1-283-73935-6
981-4343-50-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; 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?)
The 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 The 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 A 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 Neural (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) Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (1859-1938) |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828906803321 |
Aleksander Igor | ||
Singapore, : World Scientific, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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