Human and Machine Consciousness
Consciousness is widely perceived as one of the most fundamental, interesting and difficult problems of our time. However, we still know next to nothing about the relationship between consciousness and the brain and we can only speculate about the consciousness of animals and machines. Human and Mac...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Cambridge :
Open Book Publishers
2019.
Marseille : OpenEdition |
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| Accés en línia: | Ressource accessible en libre accès Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM ; Accès complet au document dans sa version HTML. Pas d'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub). |
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Description d'après la consultation, 2019-07-04 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition en ligne est de 236 p. OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Human and Machine Consciousness, Texte imprimé, Cambridge, Open Book Publishers, 2018 |
| Sumari: | Consciousness is widely perceived as one of the most fundamental, interesting and difficult problems of our time. However, we still know next to nothing about the relationship between consciousness and the brain and we can only speculate about the consciousness of animals and machines. Human and Machine Consciousness presents a new foundation for the scientific study of consciousness. It sets out a bold interpretation of consciousness that neutralizes the philosophical problems and explains how we can make scientific predictions about the consciousness of animals, brain-damaged patients and machines. Gamez interprets the scientific study of consciousness as a search for mathematical theories that map between measurements of consciousness and measurements of the physical world. We can use artificial intelligence to discover these theories and they could make accurate predictions about the consciousness of humans, animals and artificial systems. Human and Machine Consciousness also provides original insights into unusual conscious experiences, such as hallucinations, religious experiences and out-of-body states, and demonstrates how designer' states of consciousness could be created in the future. Gamez explains difficult concepts in a clear way that closely engages with scientific research. His punchy, concise prose is packed with vivid examples, making it suitable for the educated general reader as well as philosophers and scientists. Problems are brought to life in colourful illustrations and a helpful summary is given at the end of each chapter. The endnotes provide detailed discussions of individual points and full references to the scientific and philosophical literature. |
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| Descripció de l’ítem: | Description d'après la consultation, 2019-07-04 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition en ligne est de 236 p. OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
| Format: | Navigateur Web |
| Bibliografia: | Bibliogr. Notes. Index |
| ISBN: | 9791036516627 |
| Accés: | L'accès complet au document est ouvert à tous dans sa version HTML. L'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub) est réservé aux usagers des établissements qui en ont fait l'acquisition. |