The digital mind : how science is redefining humanity / Arlindo Oliveira.
By: Oliveira, Arlindo L [author.]
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Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
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BookPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2017]Description: 1 PDF (xxii, 317 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262338394.Subject(s): Artificial intelligence | Cognitive science -- History | Brain -- Computer simulation | Artificial intelligence | Brain -- Computer simulation | Cognitive scienceGenre/Form: History. | Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification: 006.3 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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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