Computing the mind [[electronic resource] ] : how the mind really works / / Shimon Edelman
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Edelman Shimon
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| Titolo: |
Computing the mind [[electronic resource] ] : how the mind really works / / Shimon Edelman
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (628 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 153 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cognition |
| Computational neuroscience | |
| Thought and thinking - Mathematical models | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Brains, minds, and numbers -- Computing minds -- Computing brains -- The astonishing hypothesis -- Perception -- Memory -- Language -- Thinking -- Being no one -- Imagine -- The mind in the act of finding. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In a culmination of humanity's millennia-long quest for self knowledge, the sciences of the mind are now in a position to offer concrete, empirically validated answers to the most fundamental questions about human nature. What does it mean to be a mind? How is the mind related to the brain? How are minds shaped by their embodiment and environment? What are the principles behind cognitive functions such as perception, memory, language, thought, and consciousness? By analyzing the tasks facing any sentient being that is subject to stimulation and a pressure to act, Shimon Edelman identifies comp |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Computing the mind |
| ISBN: | 0-19-773506-1 |
| 1-282-97777-6 | |
| 9786612977770 | |
| 0-19-971763-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826904003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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