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What is thought?

Author: Eric B Baum
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Toward a computational explanation of thought: an argument that underlying mind is a complex but compact program that corresponds to the underlying complex structure of the world.

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Eric B Baum
ISBN: 0262025485 9780262025485 0262524570 9780262524575
OCLC Number: 52750024
Notes: "A Bradford book".
Description: ix, 478 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The mind is a computer program --
The Turing test, the Chinese room, and what computers can't do --
Occam's razor and understanding --
Optimization --
Remarks on Occam's razor --
Reinforcement learning --
Exploiting structure --
Modules and metaphors --
Evolutionary programming --
Intractability --
The evolution of learning --
Language and the evolution of thought --
The evolution of consciousness --
What is thought?
Responsibility: Eric B. Baum.

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"A book that is admirable as much for its candor as its ambition... If What is Thought? can inspire a new generation of computer scientists to inquire anew about the nature of thought, it will be a Read more...

 
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