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Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness has been written to satisfy the curiosity each and every one of us has about our own consciousness. It takes the view that the neurons in our heads are the source of consciousness and attempts to explain how this happens. Although it talks of neural networks, it explains what they are and what they do in such a way that anyone may understand. While the topic is partly philosophical, the text makes no assumptions of prior knowledge of philosophy; and so contains easy excursions into the important ideas of philosophy that may be missing in the education of a computer scientist. The approach is pragmatic throughout; there are many references to material on experiments that were done in our laboratories.The first edition of the book was written to introduce curious readers to the way that the consciousness we all enjoy might depend on the networks of neurons that make up the brain. In this second edition, it is recognized that these arguments still stand, but that they have been taken much further by an increasing number of researchers. A post-script has now been written for each chapter to inform the reader of these developments and provide an up-to-date bibliography. A new epilogue has been written to summarize the state-of-the art of the search for consciousness in neural automata, for researchers in computation, students of philosophy, and anyone who is fascinated by what is one of the most engaging scientific endeavours of the day.This book also tells a story. A story of a land where people think that they are automata without much in the way of consciousness, a story of cormorants and cliffs by the sea, a story of what it might be like to be a conscious machine …
Impossible Minds My Neurons My Consciousness Revised 1st Table of contents:
Chapter 1 Who’s Afraid of Magnus?
Artificial Consciousness: The Very Idea!
Why Magnus?
The Consciousness of a Vacuum Cleaner?
Why Neurons and not Beer Cans?
The Mental World of Magnus
The Basic Guess: Neurons and Thoughts
A Game of Consequences
Psychological Puzzles
Language: The Human Competitive Edge
Philosophy or Mathematical Equations?
Cultural Pressures
The Point of It All
Postscript to Chapter 1: On Scepticism and Guesses
Molecula’s Story
Chapter 2 Neurons and Thought
The Basic Guess
Defining My Own Consciousness
The Consciousness of Others
The Power of Modelling
The Danger of Inappropriate Modelling
Why Neurons?
The Mind’s Eye
Learning and Remembering
In a Nutshell …
Philosophy and Consciousness
The New Student and the Engineer
Descartes (1596–1650)
Locke (1632–1704)
Berkeley (1685–1753)
Hume (1711–1776)
Kant (1724–1807)
Hegel (1770–1831)
William James (1842–1910)
Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
The End of the Millennium
Enter the Ghost in the Machine
Penrose
The Basic Guess in Perspective
Postscript to Chapter 2: What Stuff Makes Me Conscious?
Molecula’s Story
Chapter 3 Automata and Brains
Automata Theory: Mathematics Anyone Can Do
Consequence 1: The Brain is a State Machine
The Wheel Machine
Some Shorthand
Building Machines with Neurons
The Behaviour of Neural Machines
The Function of Neurons: Learning and Generalisation
Learning or Programming?
A Touch of Perspective: Have We Lost Sight of Consciousness?
Neuroanatomy: The Shape of the Brain
The Cortex
The Visual System
How Does the Brain Create Consciousness?
The Concentric Theory of Consciousness
The Language of Automata: A Summary
Postscript to Chapter 3: Automaton Does Not Mean Zombie
Molecula’s Story
Chapter 4 The Inner Eye of Consciousness
Preamble: Engineering the mind of Magnus
Designing an Octopus
Consequence 2: Inner neuron partitioning
The Daydreaming Automaton
Consequence 3: Conscious and Unconscious States
The State Structure of Daydreams and Dreams
Learning to be Conscious
Consequence 4: Iconic Learning
Has the Cartesian Theatre Reopened?
Postscript to Chapter 4: Enter Phenomenology
Molecula’s Story
Chapter 5 Who Am I?
The Me in Consciousness
The “Self ” as Others See It
The Psychology of Self
Self, Personality and State Structure
An Image of the Future
Consequence 5: Prediction
Another Brief Look at Sleep
The Self as Knowing What I Can Do
Consequence 6: The Awareness of Self
Will and Consciousness
Will and Personality
Consequence 7: Will
Returning to the Self in Philosophy and Psychology
Kelly’s Personal State Structures
So, Who Am I?
Postscript to Chapter 5: The Challenge of ‘Me’
Molecula’s Story
Chapter 6 Beginnings and Words
Setting Human Beings Apart
Knowing the Names of Things
Consequence 8: Representation of Meaning
What is an Object?
Associating Names
Where are the Objects?
A Changing World
Concepts and Logic …
More Logic …
Verbs
Novelty
Abstractions and Confusions
Theories of Meaning
Gottlob Frege (1848–1925)
Wittgenstein’s Picture Theory of Meaning
Intentionality
Recent Views of “Meaning”
Whither the Word of God?
Postscript to Chapter 6: Imagining the Meaning of Language
Molecula’s Story
Chapter 7 Give me a Teddy …
Battle at Dawn
The Piaget Challenge
Chomsky’s Reply
Iconic Representation and the Battle of Royaumont
“Mah Mah”
Magnus Utters its First Words
Consequence 9: Learning Utterances
“On Human Communication”
Consequence 10: Learning Language
The Universality of Languages
An Alternative to Inheritance
The Effectiveness of Iconic Representation
Generalisation and Apparent Rules
Abstraction and Mastery
Why no Errors?
A Three-Sided Battle
Pinker’s Instinct
Karmiloff-Smith’s Representational Redescription
Magnus, Pinker and Karmiloff-Smith
Postscript to Chapter 7: Acquiring Language: What’s New?
Molecula’s Story
Chapter 8 Qualia, Instinct and Emotion
A Philosopher’s Weapon
Qualia
Nagel’s Bat
Dennett’s View on Qualia as a Philosophical Blind Alley
Colour Vision in People
Iconic Creation of Qualia: An Experiment in Colour
Consequence 11: Iconic Transfer of Qualitative Sensory Properties (Qualia?)
The Recall of Qualitative Sensory States
More Inner Sensations: Emotions or Instincts?
Instinct
Consequence 12: Instinct
Emotions
The Emotional Robot
Consequence 13: Emotions
The Importance of the Private World
Postscript to Chapter 8: Qualia and Emotions as Computational Processes
Molecula’s Story
Chapter 9 What’s the Use of Artificial Minds?
The Human as God
The Historical Robot
The Robot as a Literary Object
The Robot as Master of the Human Race
Sci-Fi Robots
The Human Machine
The Influence of the Computer Scientist
Sloman’s Design Space
Bundy’s Meta-Level Reasoning
AI and Maguns
Autonomous Agents and the Intelligence of an Ant
Brady’s Sensory Concerns
Brooks’ Reactive Robots
Cog, the Philosopher and Magnus
A Proliferation of Conscious Robots
Philosophers and Neurons
The Awe and the Mystery
Postscript to Chapter 9: The Challenge of Human Mentation
Molecula’s Story
Chapter 10 Magnus 2030 AD: An Interview
Forty Years
The First Conscious Machine? by Kim Patterson
An Epilogue?
Postscript to Chapter 10: Meeting a Conscious Robot
Molecula’s Story
Epilogue to the Revised Edition
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