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  • The World in My Mind, My Mind in the World

    by Igor Aleksander ...
    Not consciousness, but knowledge of consciousness: that is what this book communicates in a fascinating way. Consciousness is the thread that links the disappearing gorilla with the octopus suffering from a stomach ache, and the person under anaesthetic with a new born baby. How these are different, yet illustrative of consciousness, is revealed in this accessible book by one of the world's ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness (Revised Edition)

    by Igor Aleksander ...
    Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness has been written to satisfy the curiosity each and every one of us has about our own consciousness. It takes the view that the neurons in our heads are the source of consciousness and attempts to explain how this happens. Although it talks of neural networks, it explains what they are and what they do in such a way that anyone may understand. While ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Computing Techniques for Robots

    by Igor Aleksander ...
    Series series History (R0)
    I. ALEKSANDER Kobler Unit for Information Technology Management, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England It is now over half a decade since Joseph Engelberger wrote: 'Given a six-articulation arm of any configuration, software can be powerful enough to think only in tool coordinates. That is, a programmer concerns himself only with the tool on the end of the robot arm. He can ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Aristotle's Laptop: The Discovery Of Our Informational Mind

    by Igor Aleksander, Helen B Morton ...
    Series Book 1 - Series On Machine Consciousness
    Aristotle's convincing philosophy is likely to have shaped (even indirectly) many of our current beliefs, prejudices and attitudes to life. This includes the way in which our mind (that is, our capacity to have private thoughts) appears to elude a scientific description. This book is about a scientific ingredient that was not available to Aristotle: the science of information. Would the course of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 2008

    Edited by Amir Hussain, Igor Aleksander, Leslie S. Smith, Allan Kardec Barros, Ron Chrisley, Vassilis Cutsuridis ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 2008 (June 24-27, 2008; São Luís, Brazil) brought together leading scientists and engineers who use analytic, syntactic and computational methods both to understand the prodigious processing properties of biological systems and, specifically, of the brain, and to exploit such knowledge to advance computational methods towards ever higher levels of cognitive ... Read more

    $206.09 USD

  • From Brains to Systems

    Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems 2010

    Edited by Carlos Hernández, Ricardo Sanz, Jaime Gómez Ramirez, Leslie S. Smith, Amir Hussain, Antonio Chella, Igor Aleksander ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems - BICS 2010 aims to bring together leading scientists and engineers who use analytic and synthetic methods both to understand the astonishing processing properties of biological systems and specifically of the brain, and to exploit such knowledge to advance engineering methods to build artificial systems with higher levels of cognitive competence.BICS is a meeting ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

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  • Perception-Action Cycle

    Models, Architectures, and Hardware

    Edited by Vassilis Cutsuridis, Amir Hussain, John G. Taylor ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The perception-action cycle is the circular flow of information that takes place between the organism and its environment in the course of a sensory-guided sequence of behaviour towards a goal. Each action causes changes in the environment that are analyzed bottom-up through the perceptual hierarchy and lead to the processing of further action, top-down through the executive hierarchy, toward ... Read more

    $332.09 USD

  • Consciousness Explained

    by Daniel C. Dennett ...
    An exploration of the science behind being alive and aware, from the author of Brainstorms and Darwin's Dangerous Idea."Brilliant . . . as audacious as its title. . . . Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant, the best example I've seen of a science book aimed at both professionals and general readers." —George Johnson, New York Times Book ReviewConsciousness Explained is a full ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Brain-Computer Interface Research

    A State-of-the-Art Summary

    Edited by Christoph Guger, Brendan Z. Allison, Günter Edlinger ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are rapidly developing into a mainstream, worldwide research endeavor. With so many new groups and projects, it can be difficult to identify the best ones. This book summarizes ten leading projects from around the world. About 60 submissions were received in 2011 for the highly competitive BCI Research Award, and an international jury selected the top ten. This ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Out of Our Heads

    Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness

    by Alva Noë ...
    "Astounding and convincing . . . A book that should be read by everyone who thinks about thinking." —Oliver Sacks, neurologist and bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a HatAlva Noë is one of a new breed—part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist—who are radically altering the study of consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious ... Read more

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  • Ways of Attending

    How our Divided Brain Constructs the World

    by Iain McGilchrist ...
    Attention is not just receptive, but actively creative of the world we inhabit. How we attend makes all the difference to the world we experience. And nowadays in the West we generally attend in a rather unusual way: governed by the narrowly focussed, target-driven left hemisphere of the brain.Forget everything you thought you knew about the difference between the hemispheres, because it will be ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Number Sense

    How the Mind Creates Mathematics, Revised and Updated Edition

    by Stanislas Dehaene ...
    Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all over the world. Now, in The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers a fascinating look at this recent research, in an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Dehaene begins with the eye-opening discovery that ... Read more

    $26.59 USD