Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind

by Andy Clark

Book Overview

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An answer to this central question of our existence is emerging at the busy intersection of neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and robotics.

In this groundbreaking work, philosopher...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190217014
• ISBN13: 9780190217013
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"