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The digital mind : how science is redefining humanity / Arlindo Oliveira.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 317 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262338394
  • 0262338394
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 006.3 23
LOC classification:
  • Q335 .O45 2017eb
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 6, 2017).

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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