The Creative Mind

The Creative Mind

Author: Margaret A. Boden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-02-24

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1134379587

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This second edition of The Creative Mind has been updated to include recent developments in artificial intelligence, with a new preface, introduction and conclusion by the author.


Mental Mechanisms

Mental Mechanisms

Author: William Bechtel

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0805863338

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First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


The Creative Mind

The Creative Mind

Author: Margaret A. Boden

Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 9780465014514

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Explains the principles of creativity through the latest developments in computational psychology and artificial intelligence


Mind and Mechanism

Mind and Mechanism

Author: Drew V. McDermott

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780262133920

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An exploration of the mind-body problem from the perspective of artificial intelligence.


The Mechanism of Mind

The Mechanism of Mind

Author: Edward de Bono

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2015-07-02

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1473527570

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The Mechanism of Mind presents Edward de Bono’s original theories on how the brain functions, processes information and organises it. It explains why the brain, the ’mechanism’, can only work in certain ways and introduces the four basic types of thinking that have gone on to inform his life’s work, namely ‘natural thinking’, ‘logical thinking’,’ mathematical thinking’ and ‘lateral thinking’. De Bono also outlines his argument for introducing the word ‘PO’ as an alternative to the word ‘NO’ when putting lateral thinking into practice. Drawing on colourful visual imagery to help explain his theories and thought-processes, from light bulbs and sugar cubes to photography and water erosion, The Mechanism of Mind remains as fascinating and as insightful as it was when it was first published in 1969. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to gain a greater understanding of how the mind works and organises information – and how Edward de Bono came to develop his creative thinking tools.


Brain Mechanisms

Brain Mechanisms

Author: L. Andrew Coward

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2021-09-14

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1525597922

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Brain Mechanisms: Linking Cognitive Phenomena to Neuron Activity shows how to understand higher cognition in terms of brain anatomy, physiology and chemistry. Natural selection pressures have resulted in all information processes in the brain being one of just two general types: condition definition/detections and behavioural recommendation definition/integrations. Using these information process types, hierarchies of description can be created that map from cognitive phenomena to the activity of the billions of neurons in the brain. These hierarchies make it possible to create an intuitively satisfying understanding of how neuron activity results in human memory, consciousness and self-awareness. These ideas were previously described at a technical level in Towards a Theoretical Neuroscience: from Cell Chemistry to Cognition. This book presents the ideas for a more general readership.


Anatomy of the Mind

Anatomy of the Mind

Author: Ron Sun

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-04-20

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0199794707

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This book aims to understand human cognition and psychology through a comprehensive computational theory of the human mind, namely, a computational "cognitive architecture" (or more specifically, the Clarion cognitive architecture). The goal of this work is to develop a unified framework for understanding the human mind, and within the unified framework, to develop process-based, mechanistic explanations of a large variety of psychological phenomena. Specifically, the book first describes the essential Clarion framework and its cognitive-psychological justifications, then its computational instantiations, and finally its applications to capturing, simulating, and explaining various psychological phenomena and empirical data. The book shows how the models and simulations shed light on psychological mechanisms and processes through the lens of a unified framework. In fields ranging from cognitive science, to psychology, to artificial intelligence, and even to philosophy, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, and practitioners of various kinds may have interest in topics covered by this book. The book may also be suitable for seminars or courses, at graduate or undergraduate levels, on cognitive architectures or cognitive modeling (i.e. computational psychology).


Explaining the Brain

Explaining the Brain

Author: Carl F. Craver

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007-06-07

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0199299315

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Carl Craver investigates what we are doing when we use neuroscience to explain what>'s going on in the brain. When does an explanation succeed and when does it fail? Craver offers explicit standards for successful explanation of the workings of the brain, on the basis of a systematic view about what neuroscientific explanations are: they are descriptions of mechanisms.


The World in My Mind, My Mind in the World

The World in My Mind, My Mind in the World

Author: Igor Aleksander

Publisher: Andrews UK Limited

Published: 2013-11-19

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1845406079

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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 leading thinkers and neural computing engineers. Igor Aleksander addresses this enigmatic topic, by making us understand the difference between what happens to us when thinking consciously and when sort of thinking when dreaming or when not conscious at all, as when sleeping, anaesthetised or knocked out by a blow on the head. The book also tackles the larger topics of free will, choice, God, Freud (what is 'the unconscious'?), inherited traits and individuality, while exploding the myths and misinformation of many earlier mind-hijackers. He shares the journey towards building a new model of consciousness, with an invitation to understand 5 axioms or basic ideas, which we easily recognise in ourselves.