The Muse in the Machine. Computers and Creative Thought.

Gelernter, David:

ISBN 10: 1857020839 / ISBN 13: 9781857020830

Verlag: London: Fourth Estate, 1994

Beschreibung

211 p. Der Schutzumschlag ist hinten leicht berieben, ansonsten ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen. The dust jacket is slightly rubbed on the spine, otherwise a very good and clean copy without markings. - Contents - Acknowledgments - 1. A New Folk Psychology - 2. State of the Art - 3. Cognitive Pulse, and the Reality of Focus - 4. High - 5. Low - 6. The Spectrum on a Computer? - 7. Philosophical Consequences - 8. Ancient Thought - 9. Conclusion: Why.? - References - Index. ISBN 9781857020830 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 480.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1244584

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Muse in the Machine. Computers and Creative Thought.
• Verlag: London: Fourth Estate
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1857020839
• ISBN-13: 9781857020830
• Einband: Cloth with dust jacket.
• Zustand: Sehr gut
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Computer

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Inhaltsangabe

Designed for a wide audience, this book claims that the standard approach to human thought is wrong in fundamental ways. The author challenges, in particular, the views of Daniel Dennett ("Consciousness Explained") and Roger Penrose ("The Emperor's New Mind"): first, emotion is a necessary part of thought and so a thinking computer will not be possible until a feeling computer is possible; second, reasoning, logic and analysis are only part of the way we think - there are also other kinds of thinking, such as poetic and religious; third, the nature of thought is intertwined with the nature of art. He also discusses philosophy, psychology, technology, art and literature, in particular the poetry of Wordsworth, Blake, Keats and the Bible.