World in My Mind, My Mind in the World

Key Mechanisms of Consciousness in People, Animals and Machines

Igor Aleksander (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2007
Imprint Academic (Verlag)
9781845401023 (ISBN)

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Not consciousness, but knowledge of consciousness: that is what this book communicates in a fascinating way. Consciousness is the thread that links the disappearing gorilla with the octopus suffering from a stomach ache, and the person under anaesthetic with a new born baby. How these are different, yet illustrative, of consciousness is revealed in this accessible book by one of the world's leading thinkers and neural computing engineers. Igor Aleksander addresses this enigmatic topic, by making us understand the difference between what happens to us when thinking consciously and when sort of thinking when dreaming or when not conscious at all, as when sleeping, anaesthetised or knocked out by a blow on the head. The book also tackles the larger topics of free will, choice, God, Freud (what is 'the unconscious'?), inherited traits and individuality, while exploding the myths and misinformation of many earlier mind-hijackers. He shares the journey towards building a new model of consciousness, with an invitation to understand 5 axioms or basic ideas, which we easily recognise in ourselves.

Igor Aleksander is professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London.

Preface 1 Capturing the Butterfly of Thought 2 The Five Tests for Being Conscious 3 Sleep, Dreams and the Unconscious 4 The Octopus with a Stomach Ache 5 The Missing Gorilla 6 Knowing What We Want 7 Chalmers' Two Minds 8 Unfinished Business Appendix

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.4.2007
Verlagsort	Exeter
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 210 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-13	9781845401023 / 9781845401023
Zustand	Neuware