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Why Brains Don't Compute

Autor Dale Purves
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 mai 2021
This book examines what seems to be the basic challenge in neuroscience today: understanding how experience generated by the human brain is related to the physical world we live in. The 25 short chapters present the argument and evidence that brains address this problem on a wholly trial and error basis. 
The goal is to encourage neuroscientists, computer scientists, philosophers, and other interested readers to consider this concept of neural function and its implications, not least of which is the conclusion that brains don’t “compute.”
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030710637
ISBN-10: 3030710637
Pagini: 184
Ilustrații: XV, 168 p. 54 illus., 45 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 160 x 241 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2021
Editura: Springer
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Preface.- PART I. TWO REALITIES.- Chapter 1. Solving Problems.- Chapter 2. Objective and Subjective Reality.- PART II. Computation; Chapter 3. Algorithms.- Chapter 4. Coding for Computers.- PART III. ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS.- Chapter 5. Neural Networks.- Chapter 6. The Resurrection of Neural Networks.- Chapter 7. Reinforcement Learning.- Part IV. perception; Chapter 8. What We Perceive.- Chapter 9. Lines and Intervals.- Chapter 10. Angles.- Chapter 11. Lightness and Darkness.- Chapter 12. Empirical Ranking.- Chapter 13. Color.- Chapter 14. Colorimetry.- Chapter 15. Motion Speed.- Chapter 16. Motion Direction.- Chapter 17. Size.- Chapter 18. Stereopsis.- PART V. Linking OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE.- Chapter 19. Stimuli and Behavior.- Chapter 20. Associations.- Chapter 21. Mechanisms.- Chapter 22. Reflexes.- PART VI. THEORIES.- Chapter 23. Feature Detection.- Chapter 24. Statistical Inference.- Chapter 25. Information Theory.- PART VII. SELF AWARENESS; Chapter 26. Awareness.- Chapter 27. Summing Up.

Recenzii

“I highly recommend this volume for behavioral, cognitive, and evolutionary neuroscientists.” (Paul Tibbetts, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 97 (2), June, 2022)

Notă biografică

Dale Purves ist der George-B.-Geller-Professor für Neurobiologie Emeritus am Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, wo er weiterhin als Forschungsprofessor tätig ist. Zudem hat er zusätzliche Professuren im Bereich Psychologie und Gehirnwissenschaften sowie in der Abteilung für Philosophie an der Duke University inne. Nach dem Erwerb eines B.A. in Yale, einem M.D. in Harvard und einer zusätzlichen postdoktoralen Ausbildung am Harvard und University College London trat er 1973 der Fakultät der Washington University School of Medicine bei. 1990 wurde er der Gründungsleiter der Abteilung für Neurobiologie am Duke Medical Center und war anschließend Direktor des Duke Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. Außerdem war er Direktor des Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program an der Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapur.

Purves ist bekannt für seine Arbeiten zur neuronalen Entwicklung und synaptischen Plastizität. In den letzten 20 Jahren konzentrierte sich seine Forschung darauf, die visuelle Wahrnehmung und die auditorische Wahrnehmung im Kontext von Musik zu erklären. Er ist Mitglied der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften, der Nationalen Akademie der Medizin, Fellow der American Academy of Arts and Sciences und der Autor sowie Mitautor oder Herausgeber von 18 Büchern zur Neurowissenschaft.


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This book examines what seems to be the basic challenge in neuroscience today: understanding how experience generated by the human brain is related to the physical world we live in. The 25 short chapters present the argument and evidence that brains address this problem on a wholly trial and error basis. 
The goal is to encourage neuroscientists, computer scientists, philosophers, and other interested readers to consider this concept of neural function and its implications, not least of which is the conclusion that brains don’t “compute.”

Caracteristici

Examines the key differences between how brains and machines process information Addresses how experience generated by the brain is related to our physical world Encourages readers to consider the conceits of neural function and its implications