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| #2523659 in Books | A Bradford Book | 2001-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,1.13 | File type: PDF | 280 pages | ||4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| AMAZING book|By Jonathan Norwood|Mind and Mechanism is an excellent look at the mind-body problem from the viewpoint of a computer scientist. McDermott does a very good job not just explaining his hypotheses, but also showing how they compete with well know philosophical points of view as well. In Mind and Mechanism, McDermott makes the bold, yet not so far fetched, assumptio|||In this book, Drew McDermott, one of today's shrewdest thinkers on the role of computation in cognitive capacity, tackles the problem of meaning and consciousness. (Stevan Harnad, Research Chair of Canada, and Center for Cognitive Neurosciences, Univer
In Mind and Mechanism, Drew McDermott takes a computational approach to the mind-body problem (how it is that a purely physical entity, the brain, can have experiences). He begins by demonstrating the falseness of dualist approaches, which separate the physical and mental realms. He then surveys what has been accomplished in artificial intelligence, clearly differentiating what we know how to build from what we can imagine building. McDermott then details a co...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Mind and Mechanism (MIT Press) | Drew V. McDermott. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
