Are We Unique
eBook - ePub

Are We Unique

A Scientist Explores the Unparalleled Intelligence of the Human Mind

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Are We Unique

A Scientist Explores the Unparalleled Intelligence of the Human Mind

About this book

In this fascinating book on an exciting and timely topic, James Trefil explores just exactly what it is that is so special about the human mind that sets us so far from all the other animals and that also makes it impossible to design a computer that coul

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. 1 Is There Anything Left for Us?
  7. 2 Humans and Animals: The Same but Different
  8. 3 Of Fleeing Anemones and Smart Lobsters
  9. 4 Can Animals Talk?
  10. 5 The Brain
  11. 6 Of Tamping Rods and Grandmother Cells: How the Brain Works
  12. 7 How Did We Get to Be So Smart? The Evolution of Intelligence
  13. 8 Moving Wheels and Moving Electrons: How a Computer Works
  14. 9 Artificial Intelligence, Learning Machines, and Chinese Rooms
  15. 10 Why the Brain Is Not a Computer
  16. 11 Can the Brain Do Something a Computer Can’t?: Gödel and Penrose
  17. 12 The Problem of Consciousness
  18. 13 Consciousness and Complexity
  19. 14 Is There Anything Left for Us?
  20. Bibliography
  21. Acknowledgments
  22. Index
  23. About the Author