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Author : Johannes Brandl
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051832778
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Metamind, Knowledge and Coherence written by Johannes Brandl and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1991 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keith Lehrer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Metamind written by Keith Lehrer and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book, published here as a collection for the first time, are unified by the thesis that freedom, rationality, social consensus, and knowledge depend on thoughts about thoughts, that is, on metamental operations. These provide for our optionality, plasticity, and most of all for the evaluation and control of lower-level information. The collection argues that the human mind is essentially a metamind.
Author : Alexander Batthyány
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110325683
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Mind and its Place in the World written by Alexander Batthyány and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is mind? What is its relationship to the physical world? Is consciousness a causative agent in the physical world? With much progress being made in the neurosciences, many have thought that these questions could be answered by reducing them to questions about physical systems such as the brain. But this approach has foundered on the core problem of consciousness: Why is it that some brain processes are accompanied by conscious awareness? This anthology points out new sources and unexamined paths of consciousness research. By presenting a wide spectrum of non-reductive theories, the volume endeavours to overcome the dichotomy between dualism and monism that keeps plaguing the debate in favour of new and more differentiated positions.
Author : Minas C. Kafatos
Publisher : Quest Books
ISBN 13 : 9780835606745
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Looking In, Seeing Out written by Minas C. Kafatos and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 1991-10-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books on science and mysticism attempt to link modern physics to philosophic views of consciousness. This book explores the two as parallel processes-one outer, one inner. Our outward search is for objective reality- "out there" in the world. But what we experience as outer is linked to what we can know in ourselves subjectively. The inward search is for that level of consciousness that underlies all subjective experience, spoken of by the mystics. Like other recent others, Drs. Kafatos and Karatou find parallels between Eastern thought and recent scientific developments in quantum theory and cosmology. But they go farther and hold that the realms of consciousness and the objective world are complementary aspect of the same reality. Their approach is fresh and unique and shows how we are involved in the cosmic process.
Author : Ryan North
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1302528114
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Fantastic Four By Ryan North Vol. 3 written by Ryan North and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Fantastic Four (2022) #12-18.The Fantastic Four meet the Jurassic Four! When our FF swap places with a set of bizarre alternate-reality counterparts, they find themselves battling for survival…in a world where everyone is a dinosaur! Meanwhile, one year ago, Reed Richards sent the entire city block on which the Baxter Building stands - along with his own children and the children of his best friends Ben and Alicia - one year ahead in time. It was a desperate measure, but it saved them. And now we're finally catching up with them! Plus: A revenge plot like nothing you've ever seen! The First Family's kids make up for lost time! Susan Storm, archaeologist, makes a shocking find! The new S.H.I.E.L.D. takes shape! And, at last, Franklin Richards' secret is revealed!
Author : Marina Grishakova
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496214900
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Narrative Complexity written by Marina Grishakova and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The variety in contemporary philosophical and aesthetic thinking as well as in scientific and experimental research on complexity has not yet been fully adopted by narratology. By integrating cutting-edge approaches, this volume takes a step toward filling this gap and establishing interdisciplinary narrative research on complexity. Narrative Complexity provides a framework for a more complex and nuanced study of narrative and explores the experience of narrative complexity in terms of cognitive processing, affect, and mind and body engagement. Bringing together leading international scholars from a range of disciplines, this volume combines analytical effort and conceptual insight in order to relate more effectively our theories of narrative representation and complexities of intelligent behavior. This collection engages important questions on how narrative complexity functions as an agent of cultural evolution, how our understanding of narrative complexity can be extended in light of new research in the social sciences and humanities, how interactive media produce new types of narrative complexity, and how the role of embodiment as a factor of narrative complexity acquires prominence in cognitive science and media studies. The contributors explore narrative complexity transmitted through various semiotic channels, embedded in multiple contexts, and experienced across different media, including film, comics, music, interactive apps, audiowalks, and ambient literature.
Author : Anastassia Lauterbach
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440859957
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The Artificial Intelligence Imperative written by Anastassia Lauterbach and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide to artificial intelligence and its impact on industry dispels common myths and calls for cross-sector, collaborative leadership for the responsible design and embedding of AI in the daily work of businesses and oversight by boards. Artificial intelligence has arrived, and it's coming to a business near you. The disruptive impact of AI on the global economy—from health care to energy, financial services to agriculture, and defense to media—is enormous. Technology literacy is a must for traditional businesses, their boards, policy makers, and governance professionals. This is the first book to explain where AI comes from, why it has emerged as one of the most powerful forces in mergers and acquisitions and research and development, and what companies need to do to implement it successfully. It equips business leaders with a practical roadmap for competing and even thriving in the face of the coming AI revolution. The authors analyze competitive trends, provide industry and governance examples, and explain interactions between AI and other digital technologies, such as blockchain, cybersecurity, and the Internet of Things. At the same time, AI experts will learn how their research and products can increase the competitiveness of their businesses, and corporate boards will come away with a thorough knowledge of the AI governance, ethics, and risk questions to ask.
Author : P. Engel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401140421
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Believing and Accepting written by P. Engel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (1) Beliefs are involuntary, and not nonnally subject to direct voluntary control. For instance I cannot believe at will that my trousers are on fire, or that the Dalai Lama is a living God, even if you pay me a large amount of money for believing such things. (2) Beliefs are nonnally shaped by evidence for what is believed, unless they are, in some sense, irrational. In general a belief is rational if it is proportioned to the degree of evidence that one has for its truth. In this sense, one often says that "beliefs aim at truth" . This is why it is, on the face of it, irrational to believe against the evidence that one has. A subject whose beliefs are not shaped by a concern for their truth, but by what she wants to be the case, is more or less a wishful thinker or a self-deceiver. (3) Beliefs are context independent, in the sense that at one time a subject believes something or does not believe it; she does not believe it relative to one context and not relative to another. For instance if I believe that Paris is a polluted city, I cannot believe that on Monday and not on Tuesday; that would be a change of belief, or a change of mind, but not a case of believing one thing in one context and another thing in another context. If I believe something, the belief is more or 4 less pennanent across various contexts.
Author : Maja Djikic
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1523006021
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Possible Self written by Maja Djikic and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes success isn't enough-discover how to achieve lasting, whole-life fulfillment through a simple five-stage plan that corresponds with the five key parts of ourselves. We're often told that the key to success in life involves advancing in our careers, so why do feel stuck and unfulfilled when everything seems to be going right? Adult development expert Maja Djikic explains that in order to discover our purpose and achieve real, lasting change, we need to move beyond narrowly targeted ideas and strategies like changing our mindset or slightly altering one aspect of our behavior. Instead, we need to go deeper and focus on our innate desires. Djikic says that sustained change can only happen when our whole self moves holistically the same direction and at the same time. She introduces a transformational system called the Wheel of Change—a simple, five-segment plan that corresponds with the five key parts of ourselves: Desires, Actions, Emotions, Thoughts, and Body. By understanding the mechanisms of these five integral parts, you will be able to escape the paradox of success without happiness and move towards your own path of fulfilling self-development.
Author : Ian Stewart
Publisher : Elsewhen Press
ISBN 13 : 1915304504
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Loophole written by Ian Stewart and published by Elsewhen Press. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t poke your nose down a wormhole – you never know what you might find. Two universes joined by a wormhole pair that forms a ‘loophole’, with an icemoon orbiting through the loophole, shared between two different planetary systems in the two universes. A civilisation with uploaded minds in virtual reality served by artificial humans. A ravening Horde of replicating machines that kill stars. Real humans from a decrepit system of colony worlds. A race of hyperintelligent but somewhat vague aliens. Who will close the loophole… who will exploit it? “When universes collide … A multicosmos at war in a scenario of staggering, but scientifically authentic, invention … As if the Marvel multiverse collided with 2001: A Space Odyssey … I am awed, and I don’t awe easily. The highest of high-concept SF.” – Stephen Baxter, award-winning author of the Xeelee sequence, Time Slip and many others. “There’s Hard SF. There’s Wide-Screen Baroque. Now with Ian Stewart’s Loophole we have Wrap-Around Rococo. Daringly inventive, Loophole is a mind-fryingly, Möbius-twistingly intense SF adventure of the first order.” – Henry Gee, Senior Editor at Nature, and author of A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth. Cover design: David A. Hardy
Author : Varun Gupta
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000398846
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Research and Evidence in Software Engineering written by Varun Gupta and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research and Evidence in Software Engineering: From Empirical Studies to Open Source Artifacts introduces advanced software engineering to software engineers, scientists, postdoctoral researchers, academicians, software consultants, management executives, doctoral students, and advanced level postgraduate computer science students. This book contains research articles addressing numerous software engineering research challenges associated with various software development-related activities, including programming, testing, measurements, human factors (social software engineering), specification, quality, program analysis, software project management, and more. It provides relevant theoretical frameworks, empirical research findings, and evaluated solutions addressing the research challenges associated with the above-mentioned software engineering activities. To foster collaboration among the software engineering research community, this book also reports datasets acquired systematically through scientific methods and related to various software engineering aspects that are valuable to the research community. These datasets will allow other researchers to use them in their research, thus improving the quality of overall research. The knowledge disseminated by the research studies contained in the book will hopefully motivate other researchers to further innovation in the way software development happens in real practice.
Author : Mark Pizzato
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786457589
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Inner Theatres of Good and Evil written by Mark Pizzato and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most intriguing questions of neurology is how conceptions of good and evil arise in the human brain. In a world where we encounter god-like forces in nature, and try to transcend them, the development of a neural network dramatizing good against evil seems inevitable. This critical book explores the cosmic dimensions of the brain's inner theatre as revealed by neurology, cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, psychoanalysis, primatology and exemplary Western performances. In theatre, film, and television, supernatural figures express the brain's anatomical features as humans transform their natural environment into cosmic and theological spaces in order to grapple with their vulnerability in the world.
Author : Bernard Marr
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119027039
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Big Data For Small Business For Dummies written by Bernard Marr and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capitalise on big data to add value to your small business Written by bestselling author and big data expert Bernard Marr, Big Data For Small Business For Dummies helps you understand what big data actually is—and how you can analyse and use it to improve your business. Free of confusing jargon and complemented with lots of step-by-step guidance and helpful advice, it quickly and painlessly helps you get the most from using big data in a small business. Business data has been around for a long time. Unfortunately, it was trapped away in overcrowded filing cabinets and on archaic floppy disks. Now, thanks to technology and new tools that display complex databases in a much simpler manner, small businesses can benefit from the big data that's been hiding right under their noses. With the help of this friendly guide, you'll discover how to get your hands on big data to develop new offerings, products and services; understand technological change; create an infrastructure; develop strategies; and make smarter business decisions. Shows you how to use big data to make sense of user activity on social networks and customer transactions Demonstrates how to capture, store, search, share, analyse and visualise analytics Helps you turn your data into actionable insights Explains how to use big data to your advantage in order to transform your small business If you're a small business owner or employee, Big Data For Small Business For Dummies helps you harness the hottest commodity on the market today in order to take your company to new heights.
Author : Nelson (Nick) E. Brestoff
Publisher : Business Expert Press
ISBN 13 : 1949991695
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (499 download)
Download or read book AI Concepts for Business Applications written by Nelson (Nick) E. Brestoff and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The business world has been hearing about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and blockchain. AI was the superstar topic of conversations at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this past January 2019. Here, Nick Brestoff, a former attorney who now holds eight (8) patents for business applications that use AI and the breakthrough form of AI -- “deep learning,” provides his readers with a “no math” explanation of deep learning that’s followed by numerous applications in a wide variety of contexts. In this book, he opens the door to his journey of understanding and innovation, all in an effort to empower his readers to come up with business-relevant innovations of their own.
Author : Gennady Stepanov
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5042833390
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Artificial Mind: The Traveling Salesperson Problem. The P vs. NP Problem written by Gennady Stepanov and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which I offer to inquisitive readers, deals with the algorithm-theory problem of enumeration considered in discrete mathematics.This book is part of a series that describes an artificial-mind model I developed based on the philosophy of the Kantian apriorism.
Author : Jonathan L. Kvanvig
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191511129
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Destiny and Deliberation written by Jonathan L. Kvanvig and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Kvanvig presents a compelling new work in philosophical theology on the universe, creation, and the afterlife. Organised thematically by the endpoints of time, the volume begins by addressing eschatological matters—the doctrines of heaven and hell—and ends with an account of divine deliberation and creation. Kvanvig develops a coherent theistic outlook which reconciles a traditional, high conception of deity, with full providential control over all aspects of creation, with a conception of human beings as free and morally responsible. The resulting position and defense is labeled "Philosophical Arminianism," and deserves attention in a broad range of religious traditions.
Author : Radu J. Bogdan
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262026376
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Our Own Minds written by Radu J. Bogdan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that in response to sociocultural pressures, human minds develope self-consciousness by activating a complex machinery of self-regulation. In Our Own Minds, Radu Bogdan takes a developmental perspective on consciousness--its functional design in particular--and proposes that children's functional capacity for consciousness is assembled during development out of a variety of ontogenetic adaptations that respond mostly to sociocultural challenges specific to distinct stages of childhood. Young human minds develop self-consciousness--in the broad sense of being conscious of the self's mental and behavioral relatedness to the world--because they face extraordinary and escalating sociocultural pressures that cannot be handled without setting in motion a complex executive machinery of self-regulation under the guidance of an increasingly sophisticated intuitive psychology. Bogdan suggests that self-consciousness develops gradually during childhood. Children move from being oriented toward the outside world in early childhood to becoming (at about age four) oriented also toward their own minds. Bogdan argues that the sociocultural tasks and practices that children must assimilate and engage in competently demand the development of an intuitive psychology (also known as theory of mind or mind reading); the intuitive psychology assembles a suite of executive abilities (intending, controlling, monitoring, and so on) that install self-consciousness and drive its development. Understanding minds, first the minds of others and then our own, drives the development of self-consciousness, world-bound or extrovert at the beginning and later mind-bound or introvert. This asymmetric development of the intuitive psychology drives a commensurate asymmetric development of self-consciousness.
