MARC状态：审校 文献类型：西文图书 浏览次数：36
- 题名/责任者:
- The book of minds : how to understand ourselves and other beings, from animals to AI to aliens / Philip Ball.
- 出版发行项:
- Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- ISBN:
- 9780226795874
- ISBN:
- 022679587X
- 载体形态项:
- 500 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- 个人责任者:
- Ball, Philip, 1962- author.
- 论题主题:
- Cognition.
- 论题主题:
- Consciousness.
- 论题主题:
- Brain.
- 论题主题:
- Cognition in animals.
- 论题主题:
- Artificial intelligence.
- 中图法分类号:
- B017
- 书目附注:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-494) and index.
- 内容附注:
- Minds and where to find them -- The space of possible minds -- All the things you are -- Waking up to the world -- Solomon's secret -- Aliens on the doorstep -- Machine minds -- Out of this world -- Free to choose -- How to know it all.
- 摘要附注:
- "In this book, popular science writer Philip Ball surveys a range of sciences to map our answers to a big, philosophically rich question, one with practical and ethical consequences for today. How do we even begin to think about minds that are not human? Sciences from astronomy to biology, computer science to neuroscience, are mapping the mind in their own disciplinary territories, and Ball pulls the pieces together so that we can appreciate the full picture-the "mindscape" or "space of possible minds." This map makes plain what sorts of minds we might expect to find in the universe. By plotting properties of mind without prioritizing the human, he sheds welcome, new light on a host of fascinating questions: What moral rights should we afford animals? Can we communicate with them? Should we worry that AI is going to take over and run society according to its own agenda? If there are intelligent aliens out there, how would we know? Could we communicate with them? Should we? Understanding the mindscape also reveals ways of making advances in understanding some of the most challenging questions in contemporary science: What is thought? What is consciousness? And what (if anything) is free will? Before Ball turns to other minds, however, he addresses the human mind: what is it? Is it different from the brain? From one person to the next? In this fascinating book of minds, we come to better know our own"--
全部MARC细节信息>>
12楼南外文图书阅览室