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

Author: Oliveira, Arlindo L.
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Copyright Date: ©2017
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 317 pages) : illustrations

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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.

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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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