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Igor Aleksander Heads A Major British Team That Has Applied Engineering Principles To The Understanding Of The Human Brain And Has Built Several Pioneering Machines, Culminating In Magnus, Which He Calls A Machine With Imagination. When He Asks It (in Words) To Produce An Image Of A Banana That Is Blue With Red Spots, The Image Appears On The Screen In Seconds. Interweaving Anecdotes From His Own Life And Research With Imagined Dialogues Between Historical Figures - Including Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein, Francis Crick, And Steven Pinker - Aleksander Leads Readers Toward An Understanding Of Consciousness. He Shows Not Only How The Latest Work With Artificial Neural Systems Suggests That An Artificial Form Of Consciousness Is Possible But Also That Its Design Would Clarify Many Of The Puzzles Surrounding The Murky Concepts Of Consciousness Itself. How To Build A Mind Also Examines The Presentation Of Self In Robots, The Learning Of Language, And The Nature Of Emotion, Will, Instinct, And Feelings.--jacket. Imagination And Consciousness -- Miletus : Where The Dreaming Begins -- Nineteen Fifty-eight : A Voyage Toward Interdisciplinarity -- The Ghost Of Aristotle : An Inf

Author

Aleksander, Igor

Publisher

Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group, Limited

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231120135

Subjects

Computer Science, Science, Philosophy

Rating

3.15 / 5 (30 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14