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Contents PART I THINKING AND COMPUTATION 2. GOOD OLD-FASHIONED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ============================================= Thinking Machines, 40s Style Symbols and Computers Computing by Look-up Tables Finite State Machines The Turing Machine Von Neumann Architecture The Church-Turing Thesis The Great Imitation Game Artificial Minds via Simulation? Arguments against AI 3. ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS TO THE RESCUE =========================================== The Biological Neuron The Artificial Neuron The Exclusive-OR Problem Neural State Machines, Recurrent Neural Networks Learning in Artificial Neural Networks Arguments against Neural Networks PART II COGNITION AND CONSCIOUSNESS 4. COGNITION AND PERCEPTION =========================== The Real Processes of the Mind From Sensation to Perception Sensory Match, Mismatch and Novelty Detection Visual Perception Auditory Perception Touch Perception Multisensory Integration Attention in Perception and Thinking Perception of Self as a Vantage Point 5. LEARNING, REASONING AND INTELLIGENCE ======================================= Learning, Memorization and Memory Making Associative Learning Correlative Learning Learning by Trial and Error Learning by Imitation Learning by Verbal Description Memory and Memories Perception of Time Deduction and Reasoning Intelligence Creativity and Imagination 6. EMOTIONS AND COGNITION ========================= What are Emotions Pain and Pleasure The Beautiful and Ugly, Perceptual Pleasure The Good, the Bad and the Rotten Theories of Emotion The System Reaction Theory of Emotions Emotional Significance Motivation, Needs, Drives, Goals Humor and Laughter Music Perception and Emotions 7. LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT ======================= What is Language? Language, Thought and Inner Speech Grammar and Syntax The Multimodal Model of Language Words and Their Meanings Linguistic Understanding Language and Communication 8. CONSCIOUSNESS ================ The Mystery of Consciousness The Easy and Hard Problems of Consciousness Intentionality and Qualia Consciousness, Perception, Attention and Memory Self-consciousness and Self-image The Theory of Mind or I Know What You Know and Feel Consciousness and Free Will Models for Consciousness The Hammer Test for Consciousness Theories Arguments against Machine Consciousness PART III TECHNOLOGY OF THE MIND 9. MACHINE MODELS FOR COGNITION AND CONSCIOUSNESS ================================================= Introduction 10. REPRESENTATION OF INFORMATION ================================= Representation of Information by Distributed Signals Grandmother Signals? Classification by Distributed Signal Representations Object recognition and Alias Representations Representation of Significance 11. ARTIFICIAL ASSOCIATIVE NEURONS AND NEURON GROUPS ==================================================== The Associative Neuron Neuron Groups and Memory Function 12. MODELS FOR MACHINE PERCEPTION PROCESSES =========================================== Machine Perception Sensory Modality Perception/response Modules Cross-Connected Perception/response Modules 13. A COGNITIVE MACHINE ARCHITECTURE ==================================== Integration of Processes and Functions Visual Subsystem Auditory Subsystem Visually Assisted Auditory Perception 14. MODELS FOR MOTOR FUNCTIONS ============================== Motor Acts and Sequences Controlling Motor Acts Mirror Neurons and Imitation 15. MACHINE EMOTIONS ==================== System Reactions Emotions in the Machine Machine Volition and Motivation 16. LANGUAGE AND INNER SPEECH ============================= The Implementation of the Multimodal Model of Language Speech Acquisition Learning to Read Vertical Grounding of Word Meaning Vertically Grounded Sentences Horizontal Grounding of Word Meaning Combined Horizontal and Vertical Grounding On Syntax Inner Speech and Machine Thoughts 17. INNER IMAGERY AND THINKING ============================== Deduction and Reasoning Intelligence and Creativity Mental Arithmetic - Exercise in Inner Imagery 18. MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS ========================= Ghost in the Machine Conscious Machine Awareness Self-conscious Machines The Ultimate Test for Thinking Machines 19. CONSCIOUSNESS, TECHNOLOGY AND FINAL QUESTIONS ================================================= Towards the Technology of Mind Skillful Robots Minds on Silicon Consciousness and Self or Raise the Dead? Can We Get into the Machine? The Final Question: Being Inside References Index

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