What Is Thought?
$103.31
- Paperback
492 pages
- Release Date
20 January 2006
Summary
In What Is Thought? Eric Baum proposes a computational explanation of thought. Just as Erwin Schrodinger in his classic 1944 work What Is Life? argued ten years before the discovery of DNA that life must be explainable at a fundamental level by physics and chemistry, Baum contends that the present-day inability of computer science to explain thought and meaning is no reason to doubt there can be such an explanation. Baum argues that the complexity of mind is the outcome of evolution, which ha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262524575 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262524570 |
| Author: | Eric B. Baum |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bradford Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 492 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 20 January 2006 |
| Weight: | 771g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 25mm |
| Series: | What Is Thought? |
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”…[Should] engage general readers who wish to enjoy a clear, understandable description of many advanced principles of computer science.” Igor Aleksander Nature
A book that is admirable as much for its candor as its ambition…. If What is Thought? can inspire a new generation of computer scientists to inquire anew about the nature of thought, it will be a valuable contribution indeed.
– Gary Marcus * Science *… [Should] engage general readers who wish to enjoy a clear, understandable description of many advanced principles of computer science.
– Igor Aleksander * Nature *About The Author
Eric B. Baum
Eric B. Baum has held positions at the University of California at Berkeley, Caltech, MIT, Princeton, and the NEC Research Institute. He is currently developing algorithms based on Machine Learning and Bayesian Reasoning to found a hedge fund.
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