Kinds Of Minds: Toward An Understanding Of Consciousness (Science Masters Series) - Hardcover

Buch 4 von 14: Science Masters

Dennett, Daniel C.

 
9780465073504: Kinds Of Minds: Toward An Understanding Of Consciousness (Science Masters Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0465073506 ISBN 13: 9780465073504
Verlag: Basic Books, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel C. Dennett is Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0465073506
ISBN 13 
9780465073504
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
192
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Nicht verfügbar

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9780465073511: Kinds Of Minds: Toward An Understanding Of Consciousness (Science Masters Series)

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  0465073514 ISBN 13:  9780465073511
Verlag: Basic Books, 1997
Softcover