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Book Synopsis A New Brain for Igor by : Teddy O'Connor
Download or read book A New Brain for Igor written by Teddy O'Connor and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dim-witted assistant to a mad scientist wants his master to give him a new brain that will make him smart. Will Igor's ingenius plan to steal Master's favorite fuzzy pink slippers succeed in getting him a new brain, or does Master have other plans for his assistant? This hilarious spoof of the Frankenstein legend is sure to delight young readers.
Book Synopsis A New Brain for Igor by : Teddy O'Connor
Download or read book A New Brain for Igor written by Teddy O'Connor and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dim-witted assistant to a mad scientist wants his master to give him a new brain that will make him smart. Will Igor's ingenius plan to steal Master's favorite fuzzy pink slippers succeed in getting him a new brain, or does Master have other plans for his assistant? This hilarious spoof of the Frankenstein legend is sure to delight young readers.
Book Synopsis New Brain for Igor by : Teddy O'Connor
Download or read book New Brain for Igor written by Teddy O'Connor and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How to Build a Mind by : Igor Aleksander
Download or read book How to Build a Mind written by Igor Aleksander and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The idea of such an apparently imaginative, even conscious, machine seems heretical, and its advocates are often accused of sensationalism, arrogance, or philosophical ignorance. Part of the problem, according to Aleksander, is that consciousness remains ill defined. 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 concept 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.
Book Synopsis Adventures of Igor The Sequel by : Neven Gibbs
Download or read book Adventures of Igor The Sequel written by Neven Gibbs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Adventures of Igor, The Sequel" is of course the sequel to the book "Adventures of Igor," the comedy and concludes the original story which was written for the wonderful readers, who demanded a sequel...With the stamping of feets and calling for more "My Prescious! I wants it now!" Of course, one will want the first before eating...er...reading the second one.
Book Synopsis Beyond the Brain by : Igor M. Arievitch
Download or read book Beyond the Brain written by Igor M. Arievitch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book outlines a fundamental alternative to the rising wave of aggressive biological reductionism and brainism in contemporary psychology and education. It offers steps to achieving a daunting and elusive goal: constructing a coherently non-reductionist account of the mind. The main obstacle to such a construction is identified as the centuries-old contemplative fallacy that leads to entrenched dualisms and shackles major theoretical frameworks. The alternative agentive activity perspective overcomes this fallacy by advancing the core principles of the cultural-historical activity theory. This innovative perspective charts a consistently non-mentalist and non-individualist view of psychological processes without discarding the individual mind. A vast body of research and theories, from Piaget and Dewey to sociocultural and embodied cognition approaches are critically engaged, with a special focus on Piotr Galperin’s contribution. The notion of the embodied agent’s object-directed activity serves as a pivotal point for re-conceptualizing the mind and its role in behavior. In a radical departure from both the traditional mentalist and biologically reductionist frameworks, psychological processes are understood as taking place “beyond the brain” – as constituted by the agent’s activities in the world. From this standpoint, many of Vygotsky’s key insights, including semiotic mediation, internalization, and cognitive tools are given a fresh scrutiny and substantially revised. The agentive activity perspective opens ways to offer a bold vision for education: developmental teaching and learning built on the premise that real knowledge is not “information storage and retrieval” and that education is not about “knowledge transmission” but instead it is about developing students’ minds.
Book Synopsis Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness by : Igor Aleksander
Download or read book Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness written by Igor Aleksander and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996-09-12 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness has been written to satisfy the curiosity each and every one of us has about our own consciousness. It takes the view that the neurons in our heads are the source of consciousness and attempts to explain how this happens. Although it talks of neural networks, it explains what they are and what they do, in such a way that anyone may understand.This book is also a story. A story of a land where people think that they are automata without much in the way of consciousness, a story of cormorants and cliffs by the sea, a story of what it might be like to be a conscious machine…
Book Synopsis The World in My Mind, My Mind in the World by : Igor Aleksander
Download or read book The World in My Mind, My Mind in the World written by Igor Aleksander and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Musicophilia written by Oliver Sacks and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-02-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music? What is it about music, what gives it such peculiar power over us, power delectable and beneficent for the most part, but also capable of uncontrollable and sometimes destructive force? Music has no concepts, it lacks images; it has no power of representation, it has no relation to the world. And yet it is evident in all of us–we tap our feet, we keep time, hum, sing, conduct music, mirror the melodic contours and feelings of what we hear in our movements and expressions. In this book, Oliver Sacks explores the power music wields over us–a power that sometimes we control and at other times don’t. He explores, in his inimitable fashion, how it can provide access to otherwise unreachable emotional states, how it can revivify neurological avenues that have been frozen, evoke memories of earlier, lost events or states or bring those with neurological disorders back to a time when the world was much richer. This is a book that explores, like no other, the myriad dimensions of our experience of and with music.
Download or read book Igor Movie Novelization written by and published by Simon Spotlight. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Igor, the hunchbacked lab assistant of an evil scientist, dreams of winning first place in the annual Evil Science Fair and becoming a scientist himself. Based on the new animated feature film from The Weinstein Company and MGM, set for theatrical release on September 19th. Includes an 8-page full-color insert.
Download or read book Brain Invaders written by Michael Dahl and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diego and Martin decide to skip school and head to a nearby beach. But soon clouds begin to dot the sky, purple lightning strikes, and when tendrils emerge from a weird boater's mouth, they worry about their lives...
Book Synopsis Neuropsychology of Everyday Functioning by : Thomas D. Marcotte
Download or read book Neuropsychology of Everyday Functioning written by Thomas D. Marcotte and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The go-to resource for assessing and predicting functional abilities in persons with brain injury or cognitive decline has now been revised and expanded to reflect significant advances in the field. With a focus on key real-world capacities--independent living, vocational functioning, medication management, and driving--leading experts explore how individuals go about their daily lives, where and why disruptions occur, and potential opportunities for improving function. Strategies for direct assessment are reviewed, from standard neuropsychological tests to multimodal approaches and technology-based tools. Chapters also provide functional assessment guidance for specific neurological and psychiatric conditions: dementia, traumatic brain injury, depression, schizophrenia, and others. New to This Edition *Incorporates over a decade of technological and methodological innovations. *Chapter on theories and models of everyday functioning. *Chapters on naturalistic assessment, wearable sensors, ambulatory assessment, and virtual-reality-based tools. *Practical clinical implications are highlighted throughout.
Download or read book On the Move written by Oliver Sacks and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California, where he struggled with drug addiction, and then in New York, where he discovered a long-forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital, we see how his engagement with patients comes to define his life. With unbridled honesty and humor, Sacks shows us that the same energy that drives his physical passions—weight lifting and swimming—also drives his cerebral passions. He writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America; his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and scientists—Thom Gunn, A. R. Luria, W. H. Auden, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick—who influenced him. On the Move is the story of a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer—and of the man who has illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human.
Book Synopsis Creepy Archives Volume 17 by : Various
Download or read book Creepy Archives Volume 17 written by Various and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Toth, Al Williamson, Wally Wood, John Severin, Russ Heath, and Bernie Wrightson construct weird and wonderful stories, steeped in supernatural dread and nuclear paranoia, populated by tragic characters, and riddled with deadly, ironic twists. This volume also features an interview between comics historian S.C. Ringgenberg and cover artist extraordinaire Ken Kelly! Collecting issues #78 to #83 of Creepy. * Contains original stories written and drawn by Alex Toth! * Featuring "In Deep," Richard Corben's devastating full-color tale of survival at sea.
Book Synopsis Mind, Brain and Technology by : Thomas D. Parsons
Download or read book Mind, Brain and Technology written by Thomas D. Parsons and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As technology becomes increasingly integrated into our society, cultural expectations and needs are changing. Social understanding, family roles, organizational skills, and daily activities are all adapting to the demands of ever-present technology, causing changes in human brain, emotions, and behaviors. An understanding of the impact of technology upon our lives is essential if we are to adequately educate children for the future and plan for meaningful learning environments for them. Mind, Brain and Technology provides an overview of these changes from a wide variety of perspectives. Designed as a textbook for students in the fields and interdisciplinary areas of psychology, neuroscience, technology, computer science, and education, the book offers insights for researchers, professionals, educators, and anyone interested in learning more about the integration of mind, brain and technology in their lives. The book skilfully guides readers to explore alternatives, generate new ideas, and develop constructive plans both for their own lives and for future educational needs.
Download or read book Electric Claw written by Michael Dahl and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah receives a package in the mail from her recently deceased grandfather--a life-size robotic version of him! When her mom sends it to the scrap heap, only one hand is left behind, and Sarah keeps it as a memento. But like Sarah, the hand has problems letting go.
Download or read book Cat on the Mat written by Susan Schade and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cat has a dream. She runs. She flips. She jumps. She slips. Will Cat make the team?
