Are We Unique
A Scientist Explores the Unparalleled Intelligence of the Human Mind
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 1998
256 pages
978-1-62045-916-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this fascinating book on an exciting and timely topic, James Trefil explores just exactly what it is that is so special about the human mind that sets us so far from all the other animals and that also makes it impossible to design a computer that coul
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Is There Anything Left for Us?
- 2 Humans and Animals: The Same but Different
- 3 Of Fleeing Anemones and Smart Lobsters
- 4 Can Animals Talk?
- 5 The Brain
- 6 Of Tamping Rods and Grandmother Cells: How the Brain Works
- 7 How Did We Get to Be So Smart? The Evolution of Intelligence
- 8 Moving Wheels and Moving Electrons: How a Computer Works
- 9 Artificial Intelligence, Learning Machines, and Chinese Rooms
- 10 Why the Brain Is Not a Computer
- 11 Can the Brain Do Something a Computer Can't?: Gödel and Penrose
- 12 The Problem of Consciousness
- 13 Consciousness and Complexity
- 14 Is There Anything Left for Us?
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Author
