How to Build a Mind: Toward Machines with Imagination

Igor Aleksander

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

Preface

1. Imagination and Consciousness

2. Miletus: Where the Dreaming Begins

3. Nineteen Fifty-eight: A Voyage Toward Interdisciplinarity

4. The Ghost of Aristotle: An Influence Across Two Millennia

5. Early Artificial Neurons and the Beginnings of Artificial Intelligence

6. Liberating Philosophy: The Empiricists

7. Canterbury: The First Machines

8. Wittgenstein: A Brief Interlude

9. The WISARD Years: Machines with No Mind

10. Starting the Week with Consciousness

11. MAGNUS in South Kensington and Pasadena

12. On Being Conscious: The Ego in the Machine

Epilogue

Further Reading

Related Subjects

• Biological, Experimental
• Neuroscience & Psychology

Series

• Maps of the Mind

About the Author

Igor Aleksander is professor of neural engineering systems at the Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine in London. He has studied artificial intelligence for more than thirty years and has published over 200 papers and ten books on the subject, including Reinventing Man, Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness and Neurons and Symbols: The Stuff That Mind Is Made Of.

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