LAST FRONTIERS OF THE MIND: CHALLENGES OF THE DIGITAL AGEPHI Learning Pvt. Ltd., 1 Ιαν 2005 - 440 σελίδες In this original and brilliantly written book, Mohandas Moses has embarked on a daring theme-the challenge of artificial intelligence to the human mind and human creativity. The mind, he says, is the greatest invention in the universe; it has created the greatest works of art and science: its dimensions and potential are yet to be fathomed. But now the marvellous human mind stands challenged by the machine. To illustrate the central theme of his book, the author has brought together the views of a galaxy of eminent philosophers, cognitive scientists and neuroscientists who have explored the phenomenon and evolution of the human mind and consciousness, and the growth of Artificial Intelligence. The author describes the contribution made by the 'Artificial Intelligentsia', the human-computer interaction, and emphasizes the formidable power of the machine mind to usurp the grandeur of the human mind. He has described the manner in which memory, language, creativity, mathematics, teaching-learning and chess-playing could be altered by the digital culture. He says that 'the question we need to ask ourselves as thinking men is-would we like to sense sensations, experience experiences and think thoughts with under-standing as human beings should or are our personas to be blue matched to the template of the machine mind?' With erudition and wry humour the author takes the reader on a fascinating journey of exploration. Written with brilliance and clarity, there is freshness in his perspective and a lucid presentation of ideas. This book will be of great interest as much to academics, experts on artificial intelligence, as to the general reader who wishes to know about the challenges to the human intellect and creativity in the digital age. |
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... give indication on how certain types of human thinking could possibly be taking place. But at the end of all this, we have also seen that the sciences of each branch of the hard sciences have admitted that the final answers to the big ...
... give indication on how certain types of human thinking could possibly be taking place. But at the end of all this, we have also seen that the sciences of each branch of the hard sciences have admitted that the final answers to the big ...
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... give an indication of the nature of his mind. Wilder Penfield, the legendary Canadian neurosurgeon, who had conducted thousands of operations on the brain wrote in the 1950s about the “mystery of mind”. The Harvard psychologist J.B. ...
... give an indication of the nature of his mind. Wilder Penfield, the legendary Canadian neurosurgeon, who had conducted thousands of operations on the brain wrote in the 1950s about the “mystery of mind”. The Harvard psychologist J.B. ...
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... gives a reliable mapping of the cerebral activity. The real breakthrough came in the 1990s with positron emission tomography (PET) which identifies the areas where the brain is most active when it is engaged in different types of ...
... gives a reliable mapping of the cerebral activity. The real breakthrough came in the 1990s with positron emission tomography (PET) which identifies the areas where the brain is most active when it is engaged in different types of ...
Σελίδα 31
... gives rise to mental properties is not merely the sheer number and density of the neuronal networks in the brain. The more remarkable property is the way in which brain cells are arranged in functioning patterns. “When the exquisite ...
... gives rise to mental properties is not merely the sheer number and density of the neuronal networks in the brain. The more remarkable property is the way in which brain cells are arranged in functioning patterns. “When the exquisite ...
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... give us a peek, thanks to a group of computer scientists, neurologists and psychologists at the University of ... gives a reliable mapping of the cerebral activity. The 1990s were declared the Official Decade of the Brain and very ...
... give us a peek, thanks to a group of computer scientists, neurologists and psychologists at the University of ... gives a reliable mapping of the cerebral activity. The 1990s were declared the Official Decade of the Brain and very ...
Περιεχόμενα
Neuroscientists Look at BrainMind | 39 |
Evolution | 50 |
Time Looks at Mind | 65 |
Mind Looks at Mind | 74 |
Teilhard de Chardins Views on the Future | 87 |
Cognitive Sciences | 97 |
Darwin Mendel and the 1 Genetic Difference | 119 |
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral | 131 |
Computer and ReadingWriting | 249 |
The Future of Books and Libraries in the Digital | 272 |
Computer and Feel | 279 |
Chess and Computer | 290 |
Aesthetics and Calligraphy in the Digital | 301 |
Values of the Digital | 319 |
The Individual is an Embarrassment | 337 |
The Genius Type | 344 |
Views from the Martello Tower | 138 |
Look | 145 |
The Symbiotic | 189 |
The Drive of Technology | 200 |
Computer | 216 |
Computer and Education | 240 |
The Wellsprings | 356 |
Challenge | 367 |
The Importance of the Individual | 386 |
Last Frontiers of the Mind | 403 |
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Σελίδα 105 - For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
Σελίδα 361 - Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain — that is, not only write it but know that it had written it. No mechanism could feel (and not merely ; artificially signal, an easy contrivance) pleasure at its successes, grief when its valves fuse, be warmed by flattery, be made miserable by its mistakes, be charmed by sex, be angry or depressed when it cannot get...
Σελίδα 158 - Asimov's three laws of robotics which have stood the test of time, and once again back up a novelette to be remembered. The Three Laws of Robotics 1 . A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Σελίδα 376 - It may partly or exclusively operate upon the experience of the man himself ; but, the more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates...
Σελίδα 355 - The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.
Σελίδα 376 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established j these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Σελίδα 118 - If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed of great means and influence and yet who employs those faculties and that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion — I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.
Σελίδα 246 - Philosophy, and the epitome of all Laboratories and Observatories with their results, in his single head, — is but a Pair of Spectacles behind which there is no Eye.
Σελίδα 138 - Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as "chain" or "train" do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A "river" or a "stream" are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described.
Σελίδα 355 - new" comes into being: One natural question often raised is: How do we ever get new verbal creations such as a poem or a brilliant essay? The answer is that we get them by manipulating words, shifting them about until a new pattern is hit upon.