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  • Language: English

    Published by Chestnut Tree Press, 1999

    0929765680 / 9780929765686

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  • Language: English

    Published by MIT Press Ltd, 2000

    0262032732 / 9780262032735

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  • Language: English

    Published by Basic Books, 1996

    0465072771 / 9780465072774

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  • Language: English

    Published by Basic Books, 1996

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  • Language: English

    Published by Basic Books, 1996

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  • Language: English

    Published by Basic Books, 1997

    046507278X / 9780465072781

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    Paperback. Condition: Very Good. If you're good at finding the one right answer to life's multiple-choice questions, you're smart. But intelligence is what you need when contemplating the leftovers in the refrigerator, trying to figure out what might go with them; or if you're trying to speak a sentence that you've never spoken before. As Jean Piaget said, intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do, when all the standard answers are inadequate. This book tries to fathom how our inner life evolves from one topic to another, as we create and reject alternatives. Ever since Darwin, we've known that elegant things can emerge (indeed, self-organize) from simpler beginnings. And, says theoretical neurophysiologist William H. Calvin, the bootstrapping of new ideas works much like the immune response or the evolution of a new animal species -- except that the brain can turn the Darwinian crank a lot faster, on the time scale of thought and action. Drawing on anthropology, evolutionary biology, linguistics, and the neurosciences, Calvin also considers how a more intelligent brain developed using slow biological improvements over the last few million years. Long ago, evolving jack-of-all trades versatility was encouraged by abrupt climate changes. Now, evolving intelligence uses a nonbiological track: augmenting human intelligence and building intelligent machines.…

  • Language: English

    Published by Basic Books, 1997

    046507278X / 9780465072781

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    Paperback. Condition: Good. If you're good at finding the one right answer to life's multiple-choice questions, you're smart. But intelligence is what you need when contemplating the leftovers in the refrigerator, trying to figure out what might go with them; or if you're trying to speak a sentence that you've never spoken before. As Jean Piaget said, intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do, when all the standard answers are inadequate. This book tries to fathom how our inner life evolves from one topic to another, as we create and reject alternatives. Ever since Darwin, we've known that elegant things can emerge (indeed, self-organize) from simpler beginnings. And, says theoretical neurophysiologist William H. Calvin, the bootstrapping of new ideas works much like the immune response or the evolution of a new animal species -- except that the brain can turn the Darwinian crank a lot faster, on the time scale of thought and action. Drawing on anthropology, evolutionary biology, linguistics, and the neurosciences, Calvin also considers how a more intelligent brain developed using slow biological improvements over the last few million years. Long ago, evolving jack-of-all trades versatility was encouraged by abrupt climate changes. Now, evolving intelligence uses a nonbiological track: augmenting human intelligence and building intelligent machines.…

  • Language: English

    Published by Basic Books, 1997

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  • Language: English

    Published by Basic Books (edition First Edition), 1997

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  • Language: English

    Published by Basic Books, 1997

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  • Language: English

    Published by Wiley, 2013

    1118445163 / 9781118445167

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    Paperback. Condition: Good. Social workers are typically trained in an urban context and are unprepared for the difficulties and challenges of rural social work yet rural areas experience the greatest need for licensed social workers.

  • Language: English

    Published by Basic Books, 1996

    0465072771 / 9780465072774

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  • Language: English

    Published by Bantam Books, 1990

    0553070843 / 9780553070842

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    Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Wie das Gehirn denkt] . bietet ein ausgezeichnetes Konzentrat von Calvins] Schl sselkonzepten. Er geh rt zu jener raren Sorte von Wissenschaftlern, welche die komplexen Inhalte ihres Fachgebiets in die Sprache von Laien bersetzen k nnen, und er ist dabei einer der besten . Calvin zieht den Leser mit seiner lyrischen und phantasievollen Darstellung unweigerlich in seine Welt des neuronalen Darwinismus und weckt den Appetit auf mehr.Eine wertvolle Einf hrung in die Bewu tseinsdebatte -- ein kluges, mitrei endes Buch. Es verlangt keine Vorkenntnisse und kennt keine Zur ckhaltung.Calvin sprudelt ber vor Ideen, und dies ist ein provozierendes und anregendes Buch. Zeitskala sehr viel k rzer. Der Darwinsche Wettstreit im Gehirn findet zun chst im Un- oder Unterbewussten statt, und erst wenn eines der eingereichten Ideenfragmente sich der internen Qualit tspr fung und Optimierung erfolgreich unterzogen hat, kommt uns der Gedanke. Calvins Modell der Verschaltung und Funktionsweise des Gehirns geht von einer Art neuronalem S ngertreffen aus, in dem rivalisierende Ch re sich gegenseitig zu bertreffen und den anderen ihre Melodie aufzuzwingen versuchen. Die S nger sind die Nervenzellen, die jeweils zu mehreren zu einem Chor zusammentreten, und die Melodien, die schlie lich die Oberhand gewinnen, sind die Gedanken, die wir denken, oder die Dinge, die wir sagen. Wie in der Evolution des Lebens k nnen also auch in unserem Gehirn aus einfachen Urspr ngen hochkomplexe Ordnungsmuster entstehen. Wird das R tsel des Bewusstseins so letztlich aufzukl ren sein? Nach Calvins fester berzeugung ist es ein Irrglauben zu denken -- so wie es die Bewusstseinsphysiker tun --, man k nne vom Kellergeschoss der Quantenmechanik mit einem Sprung zum Penthouse des Bewusstseins gelangen. Die Stockwerke dazwischen -- chemische Bindungen, Biochemie, Membranen, Synapsen, Nervenzellen -- m ssen in eine vollst ndige Erkl rung h herer geistiger Leistungen einbezogen werden. Calvins ungew hnliche und unterhaltsame F hrung durch die Erkenntnisse der modernen Hirnforschung endet mit einem Blick in die Zukunft. Die Evolution der Intelligenz ist n mlich nicht beendet. Aber sie scheint nun eine nichtbiologische Richtung zu nehmen: An die Seite der nat rlichen Intelligenz tritt die k nstliche, und der Bau wirklich intelligenter Maschinen ist f r Calvin nur eine Frage der Zeit. Treten wir in eine neue Phase des Wettr stens ein, diesmal von menschlicher gegen maschinelle Intelligenz.…

  • Language: English

    Published by Bantam Books, 1990

    0553070843 / 9780553070842

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    Hardback. Condition: Good. Wie das Gehirn denkt] . bietet ein ausgezeichnetes Konzentrat von Calvins] Schl sselkonzepten. Er geh rt zu jener raren Sorte von Wissenschaftlern, welche die komplexen Inhalte ihres Fachgebiets in die Sprache von Laien bersetzen k nnen, und er ist dabei einer der besten . Calvin zieht den Leser mit seiner lyrischen und phantasievollen Darstellung unweigerlich in seine Welt des neuronalen Darwinismus und weckt den Appetit auf mehr.Eine wertvolle Einf hrung in die Bewu tseinsdebatte -- ein kluges, mitrei endes Buch. Es verlangt keine Vorkenntnisse und kennt keine Zur ckhaltung.Calvin sprudelt ber vor Ideen, und dies ist ein provozierendes und anregendes Buch. Zeitskala sehr viel k rzer. Der Darwinsche Wettstreit im Gehirn findet zun chst im Un- oder Unterbewussten statt, und erst wenn eines der eingereichten Ideenfragmente sich der internen Qualit tspr fung und Optimierung erfolgreich unterzogen hat, kommt uns der Gedanke. Calvins Modell der Verschaltung und Funktionsweise des Gehirns geht von einer Art neuronalem S ngertreffen aus, in dem rivalisierende Ch re sich gegenseitig zu bertreffen und den anderen ihre Melodie aufzuzwingen versuchen. Die S nger sind die Nervenzellen, die jeweils zu mehreren zu einem Chor zusammentreten, und die Melodien, die schlie lich die Oberhand gewinnen, sind die Gedanken, die wir denken, oder die Dinge, die wir sagen. Wie in der Evolution des Lebens k nnen also auch in unserem Gehirn aus einfachen Urspr ngen hochkomplexe Ordnungsmuster entstehen. Wird das R tsel des Bewusstseins so letztlich aufzukl ren sein? Nach Calvins fester berzeugung ist es ein Irrglauben zu denken -- so wie es die Bewusstseinsphysiker tun --, man k nne vom Kellergeschoss der Quantenmechanik mit einem Sprung zum Penthouse des Bewusstseins gelangen. Die Stockwerke dazwischen -- chemische Bindungen, Biochemie, Membranen, Synapsen, Nervenzellen -- m ssen in eine vollst ndige Erkl rung h herer geistiger Leistungen einbezogen werden. Calvins ungew hnliche und unterhaltsame F hrung durch die Erkenntnisse der modernen Hirnforschung endet mit einem Blick in die Zukunft. Die Evolution der Intelligenz ist n mlich nicht beendet. Aber sie scheint nun eine nichtbiologische Richtung zu nehmen: An die Seite der nat rlichen Intelligenz tritt die k nstliche, und der Bau wirklich intelligenter Maschinen ist f r Calvin nur eine Frage der Zeit. Treten wir in eine neue Phase des Wettr stens ein, diesmal von menschlicher gegen maschinelle Intelligenz. …

  • Language: English

    Published by Basic Books, 1995

    0201483378 / 9780201483376

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  • Language: English

    Published by Bantam, 1991

    0553077406 / 9780553077407

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  • Language: English

    Published by Bantam (edition First Edition), 1991

    0553077406 / 9780553077407

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    Published by Bradford Books, 2000

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  • Language: English

    Published by Basic Books (edition First Paperback Edition), 1995

    0201483378 / 9780201483376

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    Published by Orion Publishing Co, 1998

    0753802007 / 9780753802007

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    Paperback. Condition: Good. What constitutes consciousness or intelligence? This is a question that has proved to philosophers to be an intellectual dead-end. Now William Calvin, by looking closely at animal and human intelligence and a wide range of evolutionary evidence, has broken new ground that will help us understand mental illness and illuminate the whole notion of what it is to be a person. Calvin begins by asking what intelligence is. He moves to the Why of intelligence, where evidence from chimpanzees is important, before coming to the all-important How of intelligence, the cerebral codes and Darwinian processes that operate within seconds to produce intelligent thought and action.…

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    Published by Phoenix, 1998

    0753802007 / 9780753802007

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    Published by Wiley, 2013

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    Published by The University of Chicago Press, 2008

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    Hardback. Condition: Good. Every decade since 1950 has seen more floods and more wildfires on every continent. Deserts are expanding, coral reefs are dying, fisheries are declining, and hurricanes are strengthening. Global warming has made the Earth sick. This book delivers a diagnosis and a prescription.…

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    Published by The University of Chicago Press, 2008

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    Hardback. Condition: Like New. Every decade since 1950 has seen more floods and more wildfires on every continent. Deserts are expanding, coral reefs are dying, fisheries are declining, and hurricanes are strengthening. Global warming has made the Earth sick. This book delivers a diagnosis and a prescription.…

  • Language: English

    Published by University of Chicago Press (edition Illustrated), 2008

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  • Language: English

    Published by Oxford University Press (edition 1), 2005

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    Published by Bradford Books (edition F First Edition Thus), 1998

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  • Language: English

    Published by Oxford University Press, 2004

    0195159071 / 9780195159073

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  • Language: English

    Published by Oxford University Press (edition First Edition), 2004

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