عنوان

Mind Out of Matter :

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9401151040

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9789401151047

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b537893

Title Proper

Mind Out of Matter :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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Topics in the Physical Foundations of Consciousness and Cognition

First Statement of Responsibility

by Gregory R. Mulhauser.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1998

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(xix, 291 pages)

Series Title

Studies in cognitive systems, 20.

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One: Frontal Assault --;1. Structure and Overview --;2. Underlying Themes and Methods --;3. Cognitive Dissonance --;Two: Zombies and Their Look-Alikes --;1. An Embarrassment to Our Discipline --;2. Building A Zombie --;3. Zombies, Functions, and Mathematical Mysticism --;Three: Information, Complexity, and Representation --;1. Information is Physical --;2. Measuring Information --;3. Grounding Representation --;4. GöDEL DE-MYSTIFIED --;5. Platonic Hell --;Four: A Rose, by any other Name (or Description) --;1. Sensations and Descriptons --;Preliminaries --;2. Getting Sensations from Descriptions --;3. 'Macmary' --;4. A Tasty Side Note --;5. The Third Person Problem --;Five: Functional Systems --;1. Liberal Functionausm --;2. Logical Depth Measures --;3. Choosing Modules by Minimising Complexity --;4. Broader Concerns about Functional Decomposition --;Six: Self Models --;1. Supervenience and Levels of Explanation --;2. Prelude to a Theory of Consciousness --;3. Troubles with 'Mental States' --;4. Capturing Consciousness --;5. Inside the Self Model --;Seven: Schrödinger's Cat is Dead --;1. Two Problems of Interpretation --;2. Quantum Formalism in a Nutshell --;3. Consistent Histories --;4. The Classical Approximation --;5. Interactive Decoherence --;6. Is This a Fapp? --;7. mind --;what's QM Got to Do With it? --;Eight: Building Conscious Data Structures --;1. Information and the Self Model --;2. Representation and Function in Neural Systems --;3. Grossberg's Adaptive Resonance Theory --;4. Circuits of the Self Model --;Nine: Chaos, Computabiltty, and Real Life --;1. Too Much of a Good Thing? --;2. Models and Computation --;3. Dynamical Systems --;4. Chaotic Systems --;5. Extended Computabjlity --;6. Computability and Chaotic Analogue Systems --;7. Chaos And Cognition In Real Life --;Ten: My 'Hidden' Agenda --;1. What Good is a Theory of Mend And Body? --;2. A Partial Picture In Soft Focus --;3. Philosophical Futures --;References.

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Researchers and specialists in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, artificial life, complexity theory, and information theory.

Philosophy (General)

Philosophy of mind.

Science -- Philosophy.

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Book number

by Gregory R. Mulhauser.

Gregory R Mulhauser

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