Are you a machine? : the brain, the mind, and what it means to be human / Eliezer J. Sternberg ; illustrations by Shannon Blake

Author: Sternberg, Eliezer J.
Published: Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books, 2007.
Physical Description: 176 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Contents

In the scientist's lair -- The mysterious power -- The ghost in the machine -- The mechanics of mind -- Consciousness emerges -- How to build a mind -- Turing's test of consciousness -- Supremacy of the machines -- The Chinese room -- Demons in the brain -- Describing the indescribable -- March of the zombies -- The denial of consciousness -- The limits of computation -- A new generation.

Subject(s)

Philosophical anthropology
Human beings

ISBN

9781591024835 (alk. paper)
1591024838 (alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-168) and index.

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