The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness

by David Gelernter

Book Overview

The holy grail of psychologists and scientists for nearly a century has been to understand and replicate both human thought and the human mind. In fact, it's what attracted the now-legendary computer scientist and AI authority David Gelernter to the discipline in the first place. As a student and young researcher in the 1980s, Gelernter hoped to build a program with a dial marked "focus." At maximum "focus," the program would "think" rationally,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871403803
• ISBN13: 9780871403803
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"