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Ongoing bibliography Anil Mitra, Copyright © 1997 – 2022 Contents Brain, AI, Mind and Consciousness
IntroductionNot systematically maintained (2022). ReferenceTice, T. N. and T. P. Slavens, Research Guide to Philosophy, De George, R. T., The Philosopher’s Guide to Sources, Research, Tools, Professional Life, and Related Fields St. Elmo, Nauman, Jr., Dictionary of Asian Philosophies International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences Encyclopedia of Philosophy McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Sciences and Technology GeneralRussell, Bertrand, The Analysis of Matter: with a new Introduction, 1927. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd Russell, Bertrand, The Analysis of Mind, 1921. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd Safranski, Rüdiger, Martin Heidegger, 1998 Mehta, Ved, The Fly and the Bottle: Conversations with British Intellectuals, 1961 Luria, A. T., The Making of Mind, 1984 Jung, C. G., Analytical Psychology: It’s Theory and Practice, 1968 Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson, Philosophy in the Flesh, 1999 Press, William H., Flannery, Brian P. and Vetterling, William T., Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN 77 and FORTRAN 90: The Art of Scientific and Parallel Computing, 1997, Cambridge University Press PhilosophyHowey, Richard Lowell, Heidegger and Jaspers on Nietzsche: A Critical Examination of Heidegger’s and Jaspers’ Interpretations of Nietzsche, 1973, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Collins, Randall, The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change, 1998 On ExplorationPowell, G. W., The Exploration of he Colorado River and its Canyons, 1895. [Topic: Exploration] Byrd, Richard E., Alone, 1938. [Topic: Exploration. Subject: Winter exploration of the Arctic.] Lawrence, R. D., The Ghost Walker, 1983 The author develops a special relation of understanding and trust with a male puma over a winter spent in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia - after having earlier developed a similar relation with a captive puma in the London zoo. Note: I report on the story without commenting on the validity. The account is an individual experience - not intended as a controlled scientific one. He failed to develop a similar with the female that partnered with the male Believes markings have to do with mating, not territory. Reports a special state of awareness/communication that occurred spontaneously - that enabled him to understand and relate to animals in the wild and that he could not reproduce on command. Believes these states to be ESP. The ruggedness, courage, openness to nature, to times of day and shades of light…attunement of sight, smell, hearing and touch…light sensitivity of peripheral vision: after 20 to 60 minutes of dark night the eye becomes 1000 times more sensitive Brain, AI, Mind and ConsciousnessKurzweil, Ray, The Age of Spiritual Machines, 1998 Moravec, Hans, Robot, 1998 Gershenfeld, Neil, When Things Start to Think, 1998 The three books were reviewed by Colin McGinn, professor of philosophy at Rutgers, in the January 3, 1999 New York Times Review of Books. “…the books cover much the same ground…” but McGinn seems to prefer Kurzweil’s book for its philosophic care and its comprehensive cover of present and future technology. As a group, the books overstate the potential of computers to duplicate the performance and experience of the human mind. Philosophically, and on artificial intelligence, they are “wobbly” especially Moravec’s book who “writes bizarre, confused, incomprehensible things about consciousness as an abstraction…” McGinn criticizes the Turing test measure of machine consciousness [a] as application of the long abandoned doctrine of behaviorism, [b] using “Searle’s Chinese Room argument that performance does not equate to consciousness, and [c] “to know whether we can construct a conscious machine we need to know what makes us conscious…and “but we simply don’t know what makes organic brains conscious…” But, the books are strong on computer technology. Kurzweil’s “is a book for computer enthusiasts, science fiction writers in search of cutting-edge themes and anyone who wonders where human technology is going next” - there is a wide range of “juicy topics” from entropy to quantum computers to neural nets and genetic algorithms. Two technologies “that might well be over the horizon” are foglets and nanobots. Foglets at ease are a swarm of tiny cell sized robots which at the press of a button come together to form an object of hour choosing - a house, a TV, a friend, a vacation environment. Nanobots are self-replicating micro-robots “that could consume an entire planet including all the organic material…” The review ends with a caution that “self-replication is perhaps the biggest hazard presented by advanced computer technology.” Blakemore, C. B., and S. A. Greenfield. Mindwaves: Thoughts on Intelligence, Identity and Consciousness, 1987 Churchland, P. S., and T. J. Sejnowski. The Computational Brain, 1992 Greenfield, Susan A., Journey to the Centers of the Mind: Toward a Science of Consciousness, 1995 Greenfield, Susan A., The Human Mind: A Guided Tour, 1997 Levitan, I. B., and L. K. Kazmarek. The Neuron: Cell and Molecular Biology, 1991 Oswald, S. Principles of Cellular, Molecular, and Developmental Neuroscience, 1989 Pinel, J. P. T. Biopsychology, 2nd ed., 1993 Rose, S. The Making of Memory: From Molecules to Mind, 1992 Shepherd, G. S. Neurobiology, 1983
PsychologySulloway, Frank, Born to Rebel, 1996 Despite the interest and the scientific foundation, the work is lacking in its evaluation and understanding of the following items: What is creation? What is growth? What is knowledge? What is a contribution? What is genius? What is revolution…is it growth Rebellion, new world individualism, contribution Computers and NetworkingAbdelguerfi, Mahdi and Simon Lavington, The Application of Parallel Architectures to Smart Information Systems, 312 pages. 7” x 10” Hardcover. March 1995. ISBN 0-8186-6552-1. Catalog # BP06552 — $42.00 Members / $56.00 List Contents: Introduction: Parallel Database and Knowledge-Base Systems • Database Machines • Using Massively-Parallel General Computing Platforms for DBMS • Knowledge-Base Machines • Artificial Intelligence Machines Illustrates interesting ways in which new parallel hardware is being used to improve the speed and usefulness of a variety of information systems. The book, containing 13 original papers, surveys the latest trends in performance enhancing architectures for smart information systems The machines featured in the text have been designed to support information systems ranging from relational databases to semantic networks and other artificial intelligence paradigms. In addition, many of the projects illustrated in the book contain generic architectural ideas that support higher-level requirements by using semantics-free hardware designs. The material presented throughout this book will help all those engaged in the design or use of high-performance architectures for nonnumeric applications Fortran 95 handbook: complete ISO/ANSI reference, Jeanne C. Adams et al., 1997 HTML 4.0 sourcebook, Ian S. Graham, 1998 |