LAST FRONTIERS OF THE MIND: CHALLENGES OF THE DIGITAL AGEPHI Learning Pvt. Ltd., 01/01/2005 - 440 من الصفحات In this original and brilliantly written book, Mohandas Moses has embarked on a daring theme-the challenge of artificial intelligence to the human mind and human creativity. The mind, he says, is the greatest invention in the universe; it has created the greatest works of art and science: its dimensions and potential are yet to be fathomed. But now the marvellous human mind stands challenged by the machine. To illustrate the central theme of his book, the author has brought together the views of a galaxy of eminent philosophers, cognitive scientists and neuroscientists who have explored the phenomenon and evolution of the human mind and consciousness, and the growth of Artificial Intelligence. The author describes the contribution made by the 'Artificial Intelligentsia', the human-computer interaction, and emphasizes the formidable power of the machine mind to usurp the grandeur of the human mind. He has described the manner in which memory, language, creativity, mathematics, teaching-learning and chess-playing could be altered by the digital culture. He says that 'the question we need to ask ourselves as thinking men is-would we like to sense sensations, experience experiences and think thoughts with under-standing as human beings should or are our personas to be blue matched to the template of the machine mind?' With erudition and wry humour the author takes the reader on a fascinating journey of exploration. Written with brilliance and clarity, there is freshness in his perspective and a lucid presentation of ideas. This book will be of great interest as much to academics, experts on artificial intelligence, as to the general reader who wishes to know about the challenges to the human intellect and creativity in the digital age. |
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Neuroscientists Look at BrainMind | 39 |
Evolution | 50 |
Time Looks at Mind | 65 |
Mind Looks at Mind | 74 |
Teilhard de Chardins Views on the Future | 87 |
Cognitive Sciences | 97 |
Darwin Mendel and the 1 Genetic Difference | 119 |
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral | 131 |
Computer and ReadingWriting | 249 |
The Future of Books and Libraries in the Digital | 272 |
Computer and Feel | 279 |
Chess and Computer | 290 |
Aesthetics and Calligraphy in the Digital | 301 |
Values of the Digital | 319 |
The Individual is an Embarrassment | 337 |
The Genius Type | 344 |
Views from the Martello Tower | 138 |
Look | 145 |
The Symbiotic | 189 |
The Drive of Technology | 200 |
Computer | 216 |
Computer and Education | 240 |
The Wellsprings | 356 |
Challenge | 367 |
The Importance of the Individual | 386 |
Last Frontiers of the Mind | 403 |
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