
Confabulation Theory
The Mechanism of Thought
Robert Hecht-Nielsen(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 5. July 2007
Book
Mixed media product
X, 245 pages
978-3-540-49603-8 (ISBN)
Description
Confabulation theory offers the first complete detailed explanation of the mechanism of cognition, i.e., thinking, an essential information processing capability of all enbrained Earth animals (bees, octopi, trout, ravens, humans, et al.). Concentrating on the human case, this book offers an hypothesis for the neuronal implementation of cognition, and explores the mathematics and methods of application of its mechanism. Thinking turns out to be starkly alien in comparison with all known technological approaches to information processing. While probably not yet scientifically testable, confabulation theory seems consistent with the facts of neuroscience. Beyond science, any complete detailed explanation of cognition can be investigated by applying it technologically. Multiple experiments of this nature are described in this book in complete detail. The results suggest that confabulation theory can provide the universal platform for building intelligent machines. In short, this book explains how thinking works and establishes the foundation for building machines that think.Because of the theory's implications for philosophy, education, medicine, anthropology and social science, this book will also be of interest to scientists in those domains.
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Edition
2007
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
X, 245 p. With DVD.
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
553 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-49603-8 (9783540496038)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-49605-2
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Person
Robert Hecht-Nielsen was made a Fellow of the IEEE in 1997 for leadership in practical applications of neural network technology. He was a pioneer in the development of neural networks and authored the first textbook on the subject, Neurocomputing (1989). He has been a member of the UCSD faculty since 1986.
Content
Video Presentation Viewcells.- The Mathematics of Thought.- Cogent Confabulation.- Confabulation Neuroscience I.- The Mechanism of Thought.- Mechanization of Confabulation.- Confabulation Neuroscience II.