Digital Mind: How Science is Redefining Humanity (Mit Press) - Hardcover

Oliveira, Arlindo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262036037 ISBN 13: 9780262036030

Verlag: MIT Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

What do computers, cells, and brains have in common? Computers are electronic devices designed by humans; cells are biological entities crafted by evolution; brains are the containers and creators of our minds. But all are, in one way or another, information-processing devices. The power of the human brain is, so far, unequaled by any existing machine or known living being. Over eons of evolution, the brain has enabled us to develop tools and technology to make our lives easier. Our brains have even allowed us to develop computers that are almost as powerful as the human brain itself. In this book, Arlindo Oliveira describes how advances in science and technology could enable us to create digital minds. Exponential growth is a pattern built deep into the scheme of life, but technological change now promises to outstrip even evolutionary change. Oliveira describes technological and scientific advances that range from the discovery of laws that control the behavior of the electromagnetic fields to the development of computers.

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Arlindo Oliveira is President of Instituto Superior Té cnico (Té cnico Lisboa), where he is also Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262036037
• ISBN 13: 9780262036030
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 340
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