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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Oliveira, Arlindo L. Digital mind : how science is redefining humanity. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, ©2017 xxii, 317 pages |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Arlindo L Oliveira |
ISBN: | 9780262338394 0262338394 |
OCLC Number: | 1001810434 |
Description: | 1 online resource (341 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | The Red Queen's race -- The exponential nature of technology -- From Maxwell to the Internet -- The universal machine -- The quest for intelligent machines -- Cells, bodies, and brains -- Biology meets computation -- How the brain works -- Understanding the brain -- Brains, minds, and machines -- Challenges and promises -- Speculations. |
Responsibility: | Arlindo Oliveira. |
Abstract:
How developments in science and technology may enable the emergence of purely digital minds -- intelligent machines equal to or greater in power than the human brain.
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