The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity

by Arlindo Oliveira

Book Overview

How developments in science and technology may enable the emergence of purely digital minds--intelligent machines equal to or greater in power than the human brain.

What do computers, cells, and brains have in common? Computers are electronic devices designed by humans; cells are biological entities crafted by evolution; brains are the containers and creators of our minds. But all are, in one way or another, information-processing devices...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262535238
• ISBN13: 9780262535236
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher