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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b12222033.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""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."".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Imagination and consciousness -- Miletus : where the dreaming begins -- Nineteen fifty-eight : a voyage toward interdisciplinarity -- The ghost of Aristotle : an influence across two millennia -- Early artificial neurons and the beginnings of artificial intelligence -- Liberating philosophy : the empiricists -- Canterbury : the first machines -- Wittgenstein : a brief interlude -- The WISARD years : machines with no mind -- Starting the week with consciousness -- MAGNUS in South Kensington and Pasadena -- On being conscious : the ego in the machine.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-196) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 205 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0231120125 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Maps of the mind".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog subject "006.3 21".
- catalog subject "Artificial intelligence.".
- catalog subject "Imagination.".
- catalog subject "Q335 .A44225 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Imagination and consciousness -- Miletus : where the dreaming begins -- Nineteen fifty-eight : a voyage toward interdisciplinarity -- The ghost of Aristotle : an influence across two millennia -- Early artificial neurons and the beginnings of artificial intelligence -- Liberating philosophy : the empiricists -- Canterbury : the first machines -- Wittgenstein : a brief interlude -- The WISARD years : machines with no mind -- Starting the week with consciousness -- MAGNUS in South Kensington and Pasadena -- On being conscious : the ego in the machine.".
- catalog title "How to build a mind : toward machines with imagination / Igor Aleksander.".
- catalog type "text".