A New Brain For Igor
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Author |
: Teddy O'Connor |
Publisher |
: Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages |
: 38 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0375906266 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780375906268 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis A New Brain for Igor by : Teddy O'Connor
A dim-witted assistant to a mad scientist wants his master to give him a new brain that will make him smart. Will Igor's ingenius plan to steal Master's favorite fuzzy pink slippers succeed in getting him a new brain, or does Master have other plans for his assistant? This hilarious spoof of the Frankenstein legend is sure to delight young readers.
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Total Pages |
: 0 |
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ISBN-10 |
: 0756907217 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780756907211 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis New Brain for Igor by :
Author |
: Igor Aleksander |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0231120125 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780231120128 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Build a Mind by : Igor Aleksander
Igor Aleksander heads a major British team that has applied engineering principles to the understanding of the human brain and has built several pioneering machines, culminating in MAGNUS, which he calls a machine with imagination. When he asks it (in words) to produce an image of a banana that is blue with red spots, the image appears on the screen in seconds. The idea of such an apparently imaginative, even conscious, machine seems heretical, and its advocates are often accused of sensationalism, arrogance, or philosophical ignorance. Part of the problem, according to Aleksander, is that consciousness remains ill defined. Interweaving anecdotes from his own life and research with imagined dialogues between historical figures -- including Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein, Francis Crick, and Steven Pinker -- Aleksander leads readers toward an understanding of consciousness. He shows not only how the latest work with artificial neural systems suggests that an artificial form of consciousness is possible but also that its design would clarify many of the puzzles surrounding the murky concept of consciousness itself. How to Build a Mind also examines the presentation of "self" in robots, the learning of language, and the nature of emotion, will, instinct, and feelings.
Author |
: Igor M. Arievitch |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 176 |
Release |
: 2017-08-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789463511049 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9463511040 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond the Brain by : Igor M. Arievitch
The book outlines a fundamental alternative to the rising wave of aggressive biological reductionism and brainism in contemporary psychology and education. It offers steps to achieving a daunting and elusive goal: constructing a coherently non-reductionist account of the mind. The main obstacle to such a construction is identified as the centuries-old contemplative fallacy that leads to entrenched dualisms and shackles major theoretical frameworks. The alternative agentive activity perspective overcomes this fallacy by advancing the core principles of the cultural-historical activity theory. This innovative perspective charts a consistently non-mentalist and non-individualist view of psychological processes without discarding the individual mind. A vast body of research and theories, from Piaget and Dewey to sociocultural and embodied cognition approaches are critically engaged, with a special focus on Piotr Galperin’s contribution. The notion of the embodied agent’s object-directed activity serves as a pivotal point for re-conceptualizing the mind and its role in behavior. In a radical departure from both the traditional mentalist and biologically reductionist frameworks, psychological processes are understood as taking place “beyond the brain” – as constituted by the agent’s activities in the world. From this standpoint, many of Vygotsky’s key insights, including semiotic mediation, internalization, and cognitive tools are given a fresh scrutiny and substantially revised. The agentive activity perspective opens ways to offer a bold vision for education: developmental teaching and learning built on the premise that real knowledge is not “information storage and retrieval” and that education is not about “knowledge transmission” but instead it is about developing students’ minds.
Author |
: Igor Aleksander |
Publisher |
: Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages |
: 201 |
Release |
: 2013-11-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781845406073 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1845406079 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis 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 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.
Author |
: Neven Gibbs |
Publisher |
: Lulu.com |
Total Pages |
: 122 |
Release |
: 2016-06-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781365186042 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1365186040 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Adventures of Igor The Sequel by : Neven Gibbs
The "Adventures of Igor, The Sequel" is of course the sequel to the book "Adventures of Igor," the comedy and concludes the original story which was written for the wonderful readers, who demanded a sequel...With the stamping of feets and calling for more "My Prescious! I wants it now!" Of course, one will want the first before eating...er...reading the second one.
Author |
: Igor Aleksander |
Publisher |
: World Scientific |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 1996-09-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783262663 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783262664 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness 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.This book is also a story. A story of a land where people think that they are automata without much in the way of consciousness, a story of cormorants and cliffs by the sea, a story of what it might be like to be a conscious machine…
Author |
: Michael Dahl |
Publisher |
: Capstone |
Total Pages |
: 41 |
Release |
: 2016-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781496535269 |
ISBN-13 |
: 149653526X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Brain Invaders by : Michael Dahl
Diego and Martin decide to skip school and head to a nearby beach. But soon clouds begin to dot the sky, purple lightning strikes, and when tendrils emerge from a weird boater's mouth, they worry about their lives...
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: |
Publisher |
: Simon Spotlight |
Total Pages |
: 140 |
Release |
: 2008-08-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1416953647 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781416953647 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Igor Movie Novelization by :
Igor, the hunchbacked lab assistant of an evil scientist, dreams of winning first place in the annual Evil Science Fair and becoming a scientist himself. Based on the new animated feature film from The Weinstein Company and MGM, set for theatrical release on September 19th. Includes an 8-page full-color insert.
Author |
: Oliver Sacks |
Publisher |
: Vintage Canada |
Total Pages |
: 448 |
Release |
: 2010-02-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307373496 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307373495 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Musicophilia by : Oliver Sacks
What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music? What is it about music, what gives it such peculiar power over us, power delectable and beneficent for the most part, but also capable of uncontrollable and sometimes destructive force? Music has no concepts, it lacks images; it has no power of representation, it has no relation to the world. And yet it is evident in all of us–we tap our feet, we keep time, hum, sing, conduct music, mirror the melodic contours and feelings of what we hear in our movements and expressions. In this book, Oliver Sacks explores the power music wields over us–a power that sometimes we control and at other times don’t. He explores, in his inimitable fashion, how it can provide access to otherwise unreachable emotional states, how it can revivify neurological avenues that have been frozen, evoke memories of earlier, lost events or states or bring those with neurological disorders back to a time when the world was much richer. This is a book that explores, like no other, the myriad dimensions of our experience of and with music.