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With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artificial intelligence, psychology, and other disciplines. In selections that range from fiction to scientific speculations about thinking machines, artificial intelligence, and the nature of the brain, Hofstadter and Dennett present a variety of conflicting visions of the self and the soul as explored through the writings of some of the twentieth century's most renowned thinkers.… (mere)
P_S_Patrick: Both books deal with consciousness. Where the Mind's I is provocative and intentionally interesting, it lacks the objective truths that The Emperor's New Mind ascertains about consciousness. These books will not necessarily appeal to the same readers, as ENM is heavily technical, while TMI takes a more playful and questioning stance. But if you have a serious interest in consciousness, and a good level of mathematical and physical understanding, and enjoyed The Mind's Eye, then you should find Emperors New Mind a satisfying read too.… (mere)
Indeholder "Preface", "Introduction", "I. A Sense of Self", " 1. Borges and I - Jorge Luis Borges", " 2. On Having No Head - D. E. Harding", " 3. Rediscovering the Mind - Harold Morowitz", "II. Soul Searching", " 4. Computing Machinery and Intelligence - Alan Turing", " 5. The Turing Test: A Coffeehouse Conversation - Douglas Hofstadter", " 6. The Princess Ineffabelle - Stanisław Lem", " 7. The Soul of Martha, A Beast - Terrel Miedaner", " 8. The Soul of the Mark III Beast - Terrel Miedaner", "III. From Hardware to Software", " 9. Spirit - Allen Wheelis", " 10. Selfish Genes and Selfish Memes - Richard Dawkins", " 11. Prelude... Ant Fugue - Douglas Hofstadter", " 12. The Story of a Brain - Arnold Zuboff", "IV. Mind as Program", " 13. Where Am I? - Daniel Dennett", " 14. Where Was I? - David Hawley Sanford", " 15. Beyond Rejection - Justin Leiber", " 16. Software - Rudy Rucker", " 17. The Riddle of the Universe and Its Solution - Christopher Cherniak", "V. Created Selves and Free Will", " 18. The Seventh Sally or How Trurl's Own Perfection Led to No Good - a short story from The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem", " 19. Non Serviam - Stanisław Lem", " 20. Is God a Taoist? - Raymond Smullyan", " 21. The Circular Ruins - Jorge Luis Borges", " 22. Minds, Brains, and Programs - John Searle", " 23. An Unfortunate Dualist - Raymond Smullyan", "VI. The Inner Eye", " 24. What Is It Like to Be a Bat? - Thomas Nagel", " 25. An Epistemological Nightmare - Raymond Smullyan", " 26. A Conversation With Einstein's Brain - Douglas Hofstadter", " 27. Fiction - Robert Nozick", "Further Reading", "Acknowledgements", "Index".
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More philosophical fun and games, some of a very high order, from the authors of, respectively, Godel, Escher, Bach, and Brainstorms. Actually, this is an anthology, and there are some 17 other contributors, but Hofstadter and Dennett take turns commenting on all 27 pieces, so they can claim to have "composed and arranged" it. (...) The writing is without exception polished or at least clear and readable, the topic is steadily interesting, and the dialectical fireworks make a fascinating spectacle.
With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artificial intelligence, psychology, and other disciplines. In selections that range from fiction to scientific speculations about thinking machines, artificial intelligence, and the nature of the brain, Hofstadter and Dennett present a variety of conflicting visions of the self and the soul as explored through the writings of some of the twentieth century's most renowned thinkers.
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