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| Details | | Series: | Bradford Books |
| Size | | Height: | 7.0 in | | Width: | 10.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 25.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"An outstanding philosophical achievement, integrating artificial intelligence, brain neurology, cognitive psychology, ethology, epistemology, scientific method, even ethics, and aesthetics, into an interlocking whole."
W.V.Quine
"...his larger argument...[is that] all human mental life, however ethereal it seems is ultimately physical, reducible to the biological computer that is the brain....Mr. Churchland's discussion of mental disorders--emotional, cognitive, social--is fascinating, as are his hints of how artificial intelligence may revolutionize diagnostic medicine and, perhaps, scientific research."
New York Times Book Review - Robert Wright (07/09/1995)
" ...think of the elements as 'Ideas' and call the connections among them 'associations,' and you've got a psychology that seems no great advance on David Hume. I'm sorry if you find that disappointing....[T]here are as many kinds of computational architectures as you like that are intermediates between purely serial and purely parallel machines. No doubt, one of them (quite possibly not one that's now even imaginable) will turn out to be right for modeling the computations that the brain performs. That's all that anybody's got so far. If that's all that anybody's got so far, then what's all the fuss about?"
Times Literary Supplement - Jerry Fodor (08/25/1995)
"[A] truly synthetic picture of what-up-to-date knowledge of the brain can teach us about the nature of persons...[a] wonderful book."
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