What is thought?

In this volume Baum proposes a computational explanation of thought. He proposes that underlying mind is a complex but compact program that corresponds to the underlying complex structure of the world.

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1. Verfasser: Baum, Eric B.
Format: E-Book Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass MIT Press 2004
The MIT Press
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Schriftenreihe:A Bradford book
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ISBN:0262025485, 9780262025485, 9780262524575, 0262524570
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Mind Is a Computer Program -- 3 The Turing Test, the Chinese Room, and What Computers Can't Do -- 4 Occam's Razor and Understanding -- 5 Optimization -- 6 Remarks on Occam's Razor -- 7 Reinforcement Learning -- 8 Exploiting Structure -- 9 Modules and Metaphors -- 10 Evolutionary Programming -- 11 Intractability -- 12 The Evolution of Learning -- 13 Language and the Evolution of Thought -- 14 The Evolution of Consciousness -- 15 What Is Thought? -- Notes -- References -- Index