© Columbia University Press
How to Build a Mind: Toward Machines with Imagination
Paper, 192 pages, 3 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-12013-5
$25.00
/ £14.50
August, 2001
Cloth, 192 pages, 3 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-12012-8
$80.50
"Neatly illustrates how the field of artificial intelligence has mostly been leaping from enthusiasm to enthusiasm without any deep theoretical consideration of human brains or human consciousness. . . . Written with warm amusement." — The Guardian (London)
"This far-ranging book should interest readers at varying levels, from engineers and computer scientists to science fiction and psychology buffs." — Hilary Burton, Library JournalLawrence Livermore National Lab, California
"A worthy trip for anybody who's wondered . . . just how the brain does it." — Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle
"Igor Aleksander has spent most of his life in the frustrating attempt to develop intelligent machines. In doing so, he has been at the forefront of the Artificial Intelligence community for over four decades. How to Build a Mind is simultaneously a history of AI and an intellectual biography. Since designing thinking machines requires not just the ability to write computer programs but also an understanding of what we mean by 'consciousness,' 'mind,' and 'intelligence,' How to Build a Mind also takes up an inquiry into the history of philosophical explanations of those terms, from Miletus to Ludwig Wittgenstein." — Tech Directions