Tabla de Contenidos: “…The prehistoric roots of the modern mind -- The architecture of the modern mind -- Minds, other minds, and the minds of gods -- Gods and why they matter -- Gods and religious systems -- Cognition and religious systems…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Movements of the Mind: A Theory of Attention, Intention and Action -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 0.1 A Biologist's Perspective -- 0.2 Central Themes -- 0.3 The Book's Parts -- 0.4 Chapter Summaries -- 0.5 Acknowledgments -- 0.6 Family -- Claims by Section -- PART I: THE STRUCTURE OF ACTION AND ATTENTION -- 1: The Structure of Acting -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Selection Problem and the Structure of Acting -- 1.3 Intentions and Intentional Action -- 1.4 Control and Automaticity -- 1.5 The Necessity of Bias for Action -- 1.6 The Biology of Intention-Based Biasing -- 1.7 Intention-Based Biasing as Cognitive Integration -- 1.8 Learning to Act and Shifting Control -- 1.9 The Agent Must Be in Control in Action -- 1.10 The Agent's Being Active -- 1.11 Taking Stock -- Appendix 1.1 -- Notes -- 2: Attention and Attending -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Merging the Psychology and Philosophy of Attention -- 2.3 Attention and the Selection Problem -- 2.4 Attention as Guide versus Attention as Mechanism -- 2.5 Perceptual Attending as Mental Action -- 2.6 Goal-Directed Automatic Attention and Bias -- 2.7 Attentional Capture and Passive Agency -- 2.8 How Much Attention Is There in the World of Action? …”

“…In the wake of advances in unsupervised, self-improving machine learning, a small but influential community of thinkers is considering Wiener's words again. In Possible Minds, John Brockman gathers their disparate visions of where AI might be taking us.The fruit of the long history of Brockman's profound engagement with the most important scientific minds who have been thinking about AI--from Alison Gopnik and David Deutsch to Frank Wilczek and Stephen Wolfram--Possible Minds is an ideal introduction to the landscape of crucial issues AI presents. …”

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