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ARISTOTLE'S LAPTOP: THE DISCOVERY OF OUR INFORMATIONAL MIND: 1 (SERIES ON MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS) - Hardcover

Aleksander, Igor; Morton, Helen

 
9789814343497: ARISTOTLE'S LAPTOP: THE DISCOVERY OF OUR INFORMATIONAL MIND: 1 (SERIES ON MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9814343498 ISBN 13: 9789814343497
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2012

Synopsis

Aristotle's convincing philosophy is likely to have shaped (even indirectly) many of our current beliefs, prejudices and attitudes to life. This includes the way in which our mind (that is, our capacity to have private thoughts) appears to elude a scientific description. This book is about a scientific ingredient that was not available to Aristotle: the science of information. Would the course of the philosophy of the mind have been different had Aristotle pronounced that the matter of mind was information? This “mind is information” assertion is often heard in contemporary debates, and this book explores the verities and falsehoods of this proposition.

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Aristotle's convincing philosophy is likely to have shaped (even indirectly) many of our current beliefs, prejudices and attitudes to life. This includes the way in which our mind (that is, our capacity to have private thoughts) appears to elude a scientific description. This book is about a scientific ingredient that was not available to Aristotle: the science of information. Would the course of the philosophy of the mind have been different had Aristotle pronounced that the matter of mind was information? This "mind is information" assertion is often heard in contemporary debates, and this book explores the verities and falsehoods of this proposition.

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Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Company
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9814343498
ISBN 13 
9789814343497
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
242