The Brain from 25,000 Feet: High Level Explorations of Brain Complexity, Perception, Induction and Vagueness: 317 (Synthese Library) - Hardcover

Changizi, Mark A.

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ISBN 10: 1402011768 ISBN 13: 9781402011764

Verlag: Springer, 2003

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Book by Changizi Mark

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"This is a very rich and exceedingly well-written book. I learned a lot."
(Dan Ryder, University of Connecticut, U.S.A., Synthese 141:2)

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In The Brain from 25,000 Feet, Mark A. Changizi defends a non-reductionist philosophy and applies it to a variety of problems in the brain sciences. Some of the key questions answered are as follows. Why do we see visual illusions, and why are illusions inevitable for any finite-speed vision machine? Why aren't brains universal learning machines, and what does the riddle of induction and its solution have to do with human learning and innateness? The author tackles such questions as why the brain is folded, and why animals have as many limbs as they do, explaining how these relate to principles of network optimality. He describes how most natural language words are vague and then goes on to explain the connection to the ultimate computational limits on machines. There is also a fascinating discussion of how animals accommodate greater behavioral complexity. This book is a must-read for researchers interested in taking a high-level, non-mechanistic approach to answering age-old fundamental questions in the brain sciences.

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• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1402011768
• ISBN 13: 9781402011764
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 360