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Author : G. Harry Stine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560870753
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Mind Machines You Can Build written by G. Harry Stine and published by . This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Harry Stine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789837200302
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Mind Machines You Can Build written by George Harry Stine and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia Griffin Ress
Publisher : Global Communications
ISBN 13 : 9781606111451
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Mind MacHines written by Patricia Griffin Ress and published by Global Communications. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IS THERE SUCH A THING AS A MODERN DAY "WISH MACHINE" THAT CAN MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE IN NO TIME AT ALL? SOME REFER TO SUCH DEVICES IN TERMS OF RADIONICS EQUIPMENT, OCILLOCLASTS, HIERONYMOUS MACHINES - - OR MORE PRECISELY AS "BLACK BOXES" OR POWER RODS. Such devices allegedly use ancient techniques wrapped with the trappings and machinery of the modern era. Others are so seemingly simplistic that you merely have to wave the apparatus in the air to have it be effective. The machines in this unproven but promising field are purported to detect and modulate the life force using numerous arcane principles that have been developed and applied over the course of time. According to retired military intelligence operative Commander X, "Black Boxes" using radionics can be traced back to the early 20th Century, but the technique called radiesthesia quite possibly has its roots as far back as ancient Egypt. Radiesthesia is a branch of the ancient method of finding water called dowsing (water-witching), through hand-held devices such as a forked stick, L-rods and pendulums. SOME CALL IT VOODOO TECHNOLOGY - OTHERS CANNOT PRAISE THIS INVISIBLE ENERGY SOURCE ENOUGH! Experts in this highly controversial field claim to have detected and modulated our life force to grant wishes and to heal the wounded mind and body. Naturally, these devices are not sanctioned or endorsed by the FDA, the medical community or scientists at large. Some have, in fact, called it modern "Voodoo Technology"! Once you set your mind on what you want to achieve, practitioners say it is easy to reach your goals by utilizing one of these devices. Here are descriptions for. . . ** Mind Wheels. ** Electronic Mind Control Machines. ** Crystal Power Rods. ** Interdimensional Medicines. ** Time Travel and Dimensional Technology. Here is information on How to Understand Mind Machines. How To Build Mind Machines. And How To Apply Their Basic Technology.
Author : Patricia Griffin Ress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781892062642
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)
Download or read book Mind Machines written by Patricia Griffin Ress and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Igor Aleksander
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231120128
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (21 download)
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.
Author : Eliezer J. Sternberg
Publisher : Rlpg/Galleys
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Are You a Machine? written by Eliezer J. Sternberg and published by Rlpg/Galleys. This book was released on 2007 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Right now, someone in an artificial intelligence lab is fusing silicon circuitry in an attempt to engineer the human mind. In a hospital, a neurosurgeon is attempting to influence a patient's emotions by firing electrical impulses into his brain. In a classroom, a teacher is explaining how neurons in the brain interact to generate thoughts, feelings, and decisions. The question of where consciousness comes from and how it works is likely the greatest mystery we face. Despite progress in our knowledge of the brain, we still don't know how it allows us to do things like enjoy a sunset, solve a math problem, or use our imagination. For those of us who have ever thought about issues of the mind or free will, these developments pose provocative questions. What would happen if those mysterious processes could be understood? Would a scientist be able to know everything about our minds just from studying the systems in our brains? Could he predict how we will think and act? After all, the brain is an organ just like the heart or stomach, and scientists can figure out when the heart will beat and when the stomach will release bile. If such a thing could be accomplished, would that make me a machine? There are those who approach this question from a technological perspective. Someday, an engineer might be able to build a robot with my memories, opinions, and behavior. Would that make me a machine? This concise, lucid primer on neuroscience and philosophy of mind takes the reader to the very depths of the mystery of consciousness, exploring it through the eyes of key philosophers, neuroscientists, and technologists. Avoiding jargon and oversimplification, author Eliezer J. Sternberg illuminates baffling questions of the brain, mind, and what it means to be human.
Author : Marvin Minsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416579303
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Emotion Machine written by Marvin Minsky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this mind-expanding book, scientific pioneer Marvin Minsky continues his groundbreaking research, offering a fascinating new model for how our minds work. He argues persuasively that emotions, intuitions, and feelings are not distinct things, but different ways of thinking. By examining these different forms of mind activity, Minsky says, we can explain why our thought sometimes takes the form of carefully reasoned analysis and at other times turns to emotion. He shows how our minds progress from simple, instinctive kinds of thought to more complex forms, such as consciousness or self-awareness. And he argues that because we tend to see our thinking as fragmented, we fail to appreciate what powerful thinkers we really are. Indeed, says Minsky, if thinking can be understood as the step-by-step process that it is, then we can build machines -- artificial intelligences -- that not only can assist with our thinking by thinking as we do but have the potential to be as conscious as we are. Eloquently written, The Emotion Machine is an intriguing look into a future where more powerful artificial intelligences await.
Author : Tim Crane
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN 13 : 0203426312
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Mechanical Mind written by Tim Crane and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of the theories and arguments surrounding the notions of thought and representation. Now in its 2nd edition, Cranes's classic text has introduced thousands to some of the most important ideas in philosophy of mind.
Author : Malcolm Gay
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374139849
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)
Download or read book The Brain Electric written by Malcolm Gay and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading neuroscience researchers are racing to unlock the secrets of the mind. On the cusp of decoding brain signals that govern motor skills, they are developing miraculous technologies that will enable paraplegics and wounded soldiers to move prosthetic limbs and will give all of us the power to manipulate computers and other objects through thought alone. These fiercely competitive scientists are vying for government and venture capital funding, prestige, and wealth. Part life-altering cure, part science fiction, part Defense Department dream, these cutting edge brain-computer interfaces promise to improve lives-but they also hold the potential to augment soldiers' combat capabilities. In The Brain Electric, Malcolm Gay follows the dramatic emergence of these technologies, taking us behind the scenes in operating rooms, startups, and research labs, where the future is unfolding. With access to many of the field's top scientists, Gay illuminates this extraordinary race-where science, medicine, profit, and war converge-for the first time. But this isn't just a story about technology. At the heart of the scientists' research is a group of brave patient-volunteers, whose lives are given new meaning through these experiments. The Brain Electric asks us to rethink our relationship to technology, our bodies, even consciousness itself, challenging our assumptions about what it means to be human.
Author : Ray Kurzweil
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143124048
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book How to Create a Mind written by Ray Kurzweil and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bold futurist and renowned author of The Singularity Is Near explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain. “This book is a Rosetta Stone for the mystery of human thought.”—Martine Rothblatt, chairman and CEO, United Therapeutics, and creator of Sirius XM Satellite Radio “Kurzweil’s vision of our super-enhanced future is completely sane and calmly reasoned, and his book should nicely smooth the path for the earth’s robot overlords, who, it turns out, will be us.”—The New York Times In How to Create a Mind, Ray Kurzweil presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in human-machine civilization: reverse-engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works and using that knowledge to create even more intelligent machines. Kurzweil discusses how the brain functions, how the mind emerges, brain-computer interfaces, and the implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence to address the world’s problems. He also thoughtfully examines emotional and moral intelligence and the origins of consciousness and envisions the radical possibilities of our merging with the intelligent technology we are creating. Drawing on years of advanced research and cutting-edge inventions in artificial intelligence, How to Create a Mind is an incredible synthesis of neuroscience and technology and provides a road map for the future of human progress.
Author : Dima Zales
Publisher : Mozaika LLC
ISBN 13 : 1631422316
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Mind Machines (Human++ Book 1) written by Dima Zales and published by Mozaika LLC. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Dima Zales, an intense new techno-thriller that pushes the limits of what it means to be human. With billions in the bank and my own venture capital firm, I’m living the American dream. My only problem? A car accident that leaves my mother with memory problems. Brainocytes, a new technology that can transform our brains, could be the answer to all of my problems—but I’m not the only one who sees its potential. Plunged into a criminal underworld darker than anything I could’ve imagined, my life-saving technology might be the death of me. My name is Mike Cohen, and this is how I became more than human. Please note: This book was formerly titled Human++.
Author : Julian Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743242637
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse written by Julian Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-04-05 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The imminent arrival of the quantum computer, millions of times faster than today's computers, promises to launch a scientific gold rush of the new millennium. After consulting with both the computer's debunkers and the leading minds behind the breakthrough, Brown explains the quantum computer's development thus far.
Author : Andrew Smart
Publisher : OR Books
ISBN 13 : 1682190072
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Beyond Zero and One written by Andrew Smart and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Andrew Smart deftly shows why it’s time for us to think deeply about thinking machines before they begin thinking deeply about us.” —Douglas Rushkoff, author, Escaping the Growth Trap,Present Shock, and Program or Be Programmed “Provocative and cool.” —Cory Doctorow “Forget the Turing test—will the supersmart AIs that we hear so much about these days pass the acid test? In this playful, informative, and prescient book, Andrew Smart brings psychedelics into dialogue with neuroscience in order to challenge the whiz-bang computational views of human and machine sentience that dominate the headlines. Giving robots LSD sounds like a joke, but Smart is dead serious in his critique of the hidden and sometimes dangerous biases that underlie both popular and scientific fantasies of digital minds.” —Erik Davis, host of “Expanding Mind” and author, Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information “Philosophy, psychedelics, robots, and the future; consciousness and intelligence, what else do you desire? Here you will see why those machines that reach singularity will be smarter than us and take over the world—and shall need to be conscious…and maybe they can only be conscious if they are human enough. The thesis of the book, and the path shown us by Smart, leads to a great trip, of imagination and philosophy, of maths and neuroscience.” —Dr. Tristan Bekinschtein, Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge Can we build a robot that trips on acid? This is not a frivolous question, according to neuroscientist Andrew Smart. If we can’t, he argues, we haven’t really created artificial intelligence. In an exposition reminiscent of crossover works such as Gödel, Escher, Bach and Fermat’s Last Theorem, Andrew Smart weaves together Mangarevan binary numbers, the discovery of LSD, Leibniz, computer programming, and much more to connect the vast but largely forgotten world of psychedelic research with the resurgent field of AI and the attempt to build conscious robots. A book that draws on the history of mathematics, philosophy, and digital technology, Beyond Zero and One challenges fundamental assumptions underlying artificial intelligence. Is the human brain based on computation? Can information alone explain human consciousness and intelligence? Smart convincingly makes the case that true intelligence, and artificial intelligence, requires an appreciation of what is beyond the computational.
Author : George Harry Stine
Publisher : Macmillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780689115622
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (156 download)
Download or read book On the Frontiers of Science written by George Harry Stine and published by Macmillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides instructions for constructing machines which work even though science cannot explain why they work
Author : Robert L. Nadeau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (636 download)
Download or read book Mind Machines, and Consciousness written by Robert L. Nadeau and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Hockfield
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393634752
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution written by Susan Hockfield and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution, and how it will change our lives. A century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies: radios, telephones, televisions, aircraft, radar, nuclear power, computers, the Internet, and a host of still-evolving digital tools. These technologies so radically reshaped our world that we can no longer conceive of life without them. Today, the world’s population is projected to rise to well over 9.5 billion by 2050, and we are currently faced with the consequences of producing the energy that fuels, heats, and cools us. With temperatures and sea levels rising, and large portions of the globe plagued with drought, famine, and drug-resistant diseases, we need new technologies to tackle these problems. But we are on the cusp of a new convergence, argues world-renowned neuroscientist Susan Hockfield, with discoveries in biology coming together with engineering to produce another array of almost inconceivable technologies—next-generation products that have the potential to be every bit as paradigm shifting as the twentieth century’s digital wonders. The Age of Living Machines describes some of the most exciting new developments and the scientists and engineers who helped create them. Virus-built batteries. Protein-based water filters. Cancer-detecting nanoparticles. Mind-reading bionic limbs. Computer-engineered crops. Together they highlight the promise of the technology revolution of the twenty-first century to overcome some of the greatest humanitarian, medical, and environmental challenges of our time.
Author : Marc Vollenweider
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119302978
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Mind+Machine written by Marc Vollenweider and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cut through information overload to make better decisions faster Success relies on making the correct decisions at the appropriate time, which is only possible if the decision maker has the necessary insights in a suitable format. Mind+Machine is the guide to getting the right insights in the right format at the right time to the right person. Designed to show decision makers how to get the most out of every level of data analytics, this book explores the extraordinary potential to be found in a model where human ingenuity and skill are supported with cutting-edge tools, including automations. The marriage of the perceptive power of the human brain with the benefits of automation is essential because mind or machine alone cannot handle the complexities of modern analytics. Only when the two come together with structure and purpose to solve a problem are goals achieved. With various stakeholders in data analytics having their own take on what is important, it can be challenging for a business leader to create such a structure. This book provides a blueprint for decision makers, helping them ask the right questions, understand the answers, and ensure an approach to analytics that properly supports organizational growth. Discover how to: Harness the power of insightful minds and the speed of analytics technology Understand the demands and claims of various analytics stakeholders Focus on the right data and automate the right processes · Navigate decisions with confidence in a fast-paced world The Mind+Machine model streamlines analytics workflows and refines the never-ending flood of incoming data into useful insights. Thus, Mind+Machine equips you to take on the big decisions and win.
