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What people are saying - Write a reviewEditorial Review - Cahners Business Information (c) 2001 One of the earliest proponents of neural engineering to build artificially intelligent systems, Aleksander (Imperial Coll. of Science, Technology, and Medicine, London) has more than 30 years of artifical intelligence research under his belt. Though he covers a substantial amount of engineering as it applies to building machines with imagination, this work is actually more of a philosophical argument for why he has arrived at his current position. His discussion of why he thinks that a "conscious machine" is feasible is spelled out in a number of imaginary debates and dialogs between himself and various philosophers ranging from Aristotle to Wittgenstein. He also brings in Francis Crick and several arguments from prominent biological researchers. This far-ranging book should interest readers at varying levels, from engineers and computer scientists to science fiction and psychology buffs. Hilary Burton, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA Review: How to Build a Mind: Toward Machines with ImaginationUser Review - David - GoodreadsI am passionate about artificial intelligence (and recognize it's limitations). That being said, I found this an interesting read. Easy to finish in a day or two. Good reading if you're on a plane ... Read full review Editorial Review - Cahners Business Information (c) 2001 All 4 reviews »One of the earliest proponents of neural engineering to build artificially intelligent systems, Aleksander (Imperial Coll. of Science, Technology, and Medicine, London) has more than 30 years of artifical intelligence research under his belt. Though he covers a substantial amount of engineering as it applies to building machines with imagination, this work is actually more of a philosophical argument for why he has arrived at his current position. His discussion of why he thinks that a "conscious machine" is feasible is spelled out in a number of imaginary debates and dialogs between himself and various philosophers ranging from Aristotle to Wittgenstein. He also brings in Francis Crick and several arguments from prominent biological researchers. This far-ranging book should interest readers at varying levels, from engineers and computer scientists to science fiction and psychology buffs. Hilary Burton, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA Related books
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Common terms and phrasesability activity ANAXIMANDER Anaximenes ANCHOR answer areas Aristotle artificial consciousness Artificial Intelligence asked automata behavior believe biological Blackwall Tunnel BRAGG brain Brunei called Cambridge chapter cognitive Colin Cherry conscious machine consciousness Cybernetics Daniel Dennett Descartes develop ego-centered representations emergent properties engineering experience explain feedback feel firing Hopfield human Hume ideas Igor imagination Imperial College Impossible Minds inner input insight John John Hopfield John Searle knowledge laboratory language larchis learning lecture living logic look MAGNUS Marvin Minsky mathematics mechanisms mental Miletians Miletus Minsky neural networks neural systems neurons Norbert Wiener objects patterns philosophy problem Professor psychology question recognize robot Roger Penrose scientific scientists sciousness Searle seemed sensation sense sensory silicon Sophia soul talk tell theory things thought tion understand University visual awareness Warren McCulloch Wiener WISARD Wittgenstein word Popular passagesPage vii - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; •• Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear? Page 87 - Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms machine and think. The definitions might be framed so as to reflect so far as possible the normal use of the words, but this attitude is dangerous. If the meaning of the words machine and think are to be found by examining how they are commonly used, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the meaning and the answer to the question "Can machines think? Page 29 - It is these boundary regions of science which offer the richest opportunities to the qualified investigator. They are at the same time the most refractory to the accepted techniques of mass attack and the division of labor. If the difficulty of a physiological problem is mathematical in essence, ten physiologists ignorant of mathematics will get precisely as far as one physiologist ignorant of mathematics, and no further. If a physiologist, who knows no mathematics, works together with a mathematician... Page 87 - ... machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English. This process could follow the normal teaching of a child. Things would be pointed out and named, etc. Again I do not know what the right answer is, but I think both approaches should be tried. We can only see a short distance ahead , but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. Page 43 - IN reading any important philosopher, but most of all in reading Aristotle, it is necessary to study him in two ways: with reference to his predecessors, and with reference to his successors. In the former aspect, Aristotle's merits are enormous; in the latter, his demerits are equally enormous. For his demerits, however, his successors are more responsible than he is. He came at the end of the creative period in Greek thought, and after his death it was two thousand years before the world produced... Page 29 - We had dreamed for years of an institution of independent scientists, working together in one of these backwoods of science, not as subordinates of some great executive officer, but joined by the desire, indeed by the spiritual necessity, to understand the region as a whole, and to lend one another the strength of that understanding. Page 29 - There are fields of scientific work, as we shall see in the body of this book, which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and neurophysiology; in which every single notion receives a separate name from each group; and in which important work has been triplicated or quadruplicated; while still other important work is delayed by the unavailability in one field of results that may have already become classical in the next field. Page 161 - Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. 8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter. 9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it. Page 36 - ... be desirable to have special apparatus to retain an impulse which is to act at some future time, and to avoid the clogging up of the system which will ensue if one of the relays does nothing but repeat itself indefinitely. However, we shall have more to say concerning this question of memory later. It is a noteworthy fact that the human and animal nervous systems, which are known to be capable of the work of a computation system, contain elements which are ideally suited to act as relays. These... References to this bookFrom other books
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