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- Pagine: 496
- Data di uscita: 27-04-1992
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I have been conducting a long discussion about the nature of consciousness with Lotz, Robert and Wastrel in the comment thread to this review . I thought I might as well summarize my position and move the conversation to a more sensible place. To cut to the chase, I am doubtful that the "problem of co Leggi tutto
Rereading The Mind’s I forty years after it was published is like opening a philosophical time capsule of the 1970s. With the exception of a paper by Alan Turing and some fiction by Borges, all the selections in this anthology date from 1972 to 1982. There are essays and stories by scientists, philos Leggi tutto
I was given this book as a gift from one of the most interesting persons I've ever known. During the period before entering Loyola University Chicago and one semester into attending there I worked at a cafe/bookstore across the street from its Lake Shore Campus. It had been my hangout for years previ Leggi tutto
I like both Dennett and Hofstadter, but I can't say that I particularly enjoyed The Mind's Eye . It has a lot of interesting ideas, but doesn't have the time to develop them given the story-reflection format of the text. While the book includes a number of seminal pieces in philosophy of mind, as wel Leggi tutto
We all laugh at the thought that a machine may one day develop artificial intelligence, or that human consciousness could reside in a remotely controlled body while its brain is back in the lab, or that one’s mental processes could be stored in a book to be accessed by the manual computation of futu Leggi tutto
A collection of essays and short stories from scientists, philosophers, and fiction authors, all dealing with concepts related to the self and self-consciousness. Each work is followed by commentary from either Dennett or Hofstadter. I imagine this book is an absolutely fantastic introduction to the Leggi tutto
Among the working assumptions with which we get through the day are those that tell us we have a self, that its decisions are or at least can be freely willed rather than determined, that our intelligence as employed in language transcends what a machine can do, and that these qualities and processe Leggi tutto
A superb collection of thought-provoking essays and short stories touching on various aspects of the philosophical side of cognitive science. Hofstadter & Dennett's commentary was always interesting to read - even when I disagreed with them (which was much more often on this year's careful reading t Leggi tutto
This book was an excellent introduction to speculative fiction divorced from the modern categories of science fiction and Tolkienesque fantasy. Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadder collected stories that inspired new thoughts and ideas. This book also introduced many to non-American authors with mu Leggi tutto
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