The Logic Of Mind

Author : R.J. Nelson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400925953

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The Logic of Mind by R.J. Nelson Pdf

This book presents a mechanist philosophy of mind. I hold that the human mind is a system of computational or recursive rules that are embodied in the nervous system; that the material presence of these rules accounts for perception, conception, speech, belief, desire, intentional acts, and other forms of intelligence. In this edition I have retained the whole of the fIrst edition except for discussion of issues which no longer are relevant in philosophy of mind and cognitive psychology. Earlier reference to disputes of the 1960's and 70's between hard-line empiricists and neorationalists over the psychological status of grammars and language acquisition, for instance, has simply been dropped. In place of such material I have entered some timely or new topics and a few changes. There are brief references to the question of computer versus distributed processing (connectionist) theories. Many of these questions dissolve if one distinguishes as I now do in Chapter II between free and embodied algorithms. I have also added to my comments on artifIcal in telligence some reflections. on Searle's Chinese Translator. The irreducibility of machine functionalist psychology in my version or any other has been exaggerated. Input, output, and state entities are token identical to physical or biological things of some sort, while a machine system as a collection of recursive rules is type identical to representatives of equivalence classes. This nuld technicality emerges in Chapter XI. It entails that so-called "anomalous monism" is right in one sense and wrong in another.

Author : Ahron Soloveichik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fasts and feasts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002304306

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Logic of the Heart, Logic of the Mind by Ahron Soloveichik Pdf

Author : Shira Elqayam,Igor Douven,Jonathan St B. T. Evans,Nicole Cruz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351620413

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Logic and Uncertainty in the Human Mind by Shira Elqayam,Igor Douven,Jonathan St B. T. Evans,Nicole Cruz Pdf

David E. Over is a leading cognitive scientist and, with his firm grounding in philosophical logic, he also exerts a powerful influence on the psychology of reasoning. He is responsible for not only a large body of empirical work and accompanying theory, but for advancing a major shift in thinking about reasoning, commonly known as the ‘new paradigm’ in the psychology of human reasoning. Over’s signature mix of philosophical logic and experimental psychology has inspired generations of researchers, psychologists, and philosophers alike over more than a quarter of a century. The chapters in this volume, written by a leading group of contributors including a number who helped shape the psychology of reasoning as we know it today, each take their starting point from the key themes of Over’s ground-breaking work. The essays in this collection explore a wide range of central topics—such as rationality, bias, dual processes, and dual systems—as well as contemporary psychological and philosophical theories of conditionals. It concludes with an engaging new chapter, authored by David E. Over himself, which details and analyses the new paradigm psychology of reasoning. This book is therefore important reading for scholars, researchers, and advanced students in psychology, philosophy, and the cognitive sciences, including those who are not familiar with Over’s thought already.

Author : Butterfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1986-05-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521320461

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Language Mind and Logic by Butterfield Pdf

This is a collection of eleven original essays in analytical philosophy by British and American philosophers, centring on the connection between mind and language. Two themes predominate: how it is that thoughts and sentences can represent the world; and what having a thought - a belief, for instance - involves. Developing from these themes are the questions: what does having a belief require of the believer, and of the way he or she relates to the environment? In particular, does having a belief require speaking a language? The volume concludes the informal series stemming from the meetings sponsored by the Thyssen Foundation. It will interest analytical philosophers, students doing courses in philosophy of mind within the analytical tradition and philosophically interested researchers in cognitive psychology.

Author : Niklas Hageback
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781351681896

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The Virtual Mind by Niklas Hageback Pdf

• Provides the historical background to the various theories of the mind, from the ancient Greeks to Freudian and Jungian theories up till the most recent findings in modern psychology, including neuropsychoanalysis • Presents and details the distinct components of the mind; the conscious and the unconscious parts with its distinct logic systems, its separate absorptions of perceptions, and the mechanism that incorporates and governs these thought systems into a holistic mind • Reviews how a big data approach of public media can be used to test and formulate the rules and dynamic constants that defines the interaction between the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind • Summarizes in a digested manner the meta model for a virtual mind which gives the reader a computer architecture blueprint to develop machine generated human thinking

Author : Mariano L. Bianca
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781443893824

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The Nomiotic-Wave Theory of Mind and Inherent Logic by Mariano L. Bianca Pdf

This book formulates a nomiotic-wave theory of the mind grounded in six fundamental aspects: 1) the mind is different from the brain as a whole because its processes directly involve the neocortex; 2) the mind generates significant processes and configurations; 3) the mind possesses an architecture and works with operational modalities; 4) the mental processes work with the transmission of informational waves; 5) the mind consists of several minds or mental units that operate independently or in synergy with each other in a parallel and syntotic way; and 6) the mind possesses a logic that is called inherent logic. Chapter One introduces the concept of monist dualism, while Chapter Two explores the differences between brain processes and configurations and mind processes and configurations. Chapter Three presents the nomiotic theory of the mind, the fundamental characteristic of which is the generation and processing of significances (nomiosis). Chapters Four and Five take into consideration the architecture of the mind and the formation of mental structures that are called nomiotic or bearers of significances (nosemes, menemes, propagemes and noograms), and introduce inherent logic. Chapters Six to Nine analyse various topics that complete the nomiotic-wave theory of the mind, including awareness, mind-body relations, history of the mind, other minds, and the relations between the mind and the world.

Author : Jason Rosenhouse
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780691242026

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Games for Your Mind by Jason Rosenhouse Pdf

A lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in mathematics, philosophy, and recreation Logic puzzles were first introduced to the public by Lewis Carroll in the late nineteenth century and have been popular ever since. Games like Sudoku and Mastermind are fun and engrossing recreational activities, but they also share deep foundations in mathematical logic and are worthy of serious intellectual inquiry. Games for Your Mind explores the history and future of logic puzzles while enabling you to test your skill against a variety of puzzles yourself. In this informative and entertaining book, Jason Rosenhouse begins by introducing readers to logic and logic puzzles and goes on to reveal the rich history of these puzzles. He shows how Carroll's puzzles presented Aristotelian logic as a game for children, yet also informed his scholarly work on logic. He reveals how another pioneer of logic puzzles, Raymond Smullyan, drew on classic puzzles about liars and truthtellers to illustrate Kurt Gödel's theorems and illuminate profound questions in mathematical logic. Rosenhouse then presents a new vision for the future of logic puzzles based on nonclassical logic, which is used today in computer science and automated reasoning to manipulate large and sometimes contradictory sets of data. Featuring a wealth of sample puzzles ranging from simple to extremely challenging, this lively and engaging book brings together many of the most ingenious puzzles ever devised, including the "Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever," metapuzzles, paradoxes, and the logic puzzles in detective stories.

Author : Patricia A. Easton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 092492277X

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Logic and the Workings of the Mind by Patricia A. Easton Pdf

Author : Douglas Flemons,Douglas G. Flemons
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0393703827

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Of One Mind by Douglas Flemons,Douglas G. Flemons Pdf

Jay Haley once said, The only reasonable excuse for adding another theory of hypnosis to the many that have been proposed is an entirely new approach to the problem. In Of One Mind, Douglas Flemons demonstrates that he has an eminently reasonable excuse."

Author : Alexander George
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780195079296

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Mathematics and Mind by Alexander George Pdf

The essays in this volume investigate the conceptual foundations of mathematics illuminating the powers of the mind. Contributors include Alexander George, Michael Dummett, George Boolos, W.W. Tait, Wilfried Sieg, Daniel Isaacson, Charles Parsons, and Michael Hallett.

Author : R.J. Nelson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1982-09-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9401755809

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The Logic of Mind by R.J. Nelson Pdf

Author : Nikoli
Publisher : Puzzlewright
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1454943963

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The Peaceful Mind Book of Japanese Logic Puzzles by Nikoli Pdf

Tend the zen garden of your mind with three different types of Japanese logic puzzles. This book features three different types of elegant, handcrafted Japanese logic puzzles from Nikoli: masyu, yajilin, and suraromu (also called "slalom")--90 puzzles in all. The choice of puzzle types was inspired by the image of raking a zen garden, as each involves drawing a long, winding path. Like sudoku, the puzzles have simple-to-understand rules, and solvers will be able to ease into the book with plenty of easy- and medium-difficulty puzzles.

Author : A. Stern
Publisher : North Holland
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992-02-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015028416652

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Matrix Logic and Mind by A. Stern Pdf

In this revolutionary work, the author sets the stage for the science of the 21st Century, pursuing an unprecedented synthesis of fields previously considered unrelated. Beginning with simple classical concepts, he ends with a complex multidisciplinary theory requiring a high level of abstraction. The work progresses across the sciences in several multidisciplinary directions: Mathematical logic, fundamental physics, computer science and the theory of intelligence. Extraordinarily enough, the author breaks new ground in all these fields. In the field of fundamental physics the author reaches the revolutionary conclusion that physics can be viewed and studied as logic in a fundamental sense, as compared with Einstein's view of physics as space-time geometry. This opens new, exciting prospects for the study of fundamental interactions. A formulation of logic in terms of matrix operators and logic vector spaces allows the author to tackle for the first time the intractable problem of cognition in a scientific manner. In the same way as the findings of Heisenberg and Dirac in the 1930s provided a conceptual and mathematical foundation for quantum physics, matrix operator logic supports an important breakthrough in the study of the physics of the mind, which is interpreted as a fractal of quantum mechanics. Introducing a concept of logic quantum numbers, the author concludes that the problem of logic and the intelligence code in general can be effectively formulated as eigenvalue problems similar to those of theoretical physics. With this important leap forward in the study of the mechanism of mind, the author concludes that the latter cannot be fully understood either within classical or quantum notions. A higher-order covariant theory is required to accommodate the fundamental effect of high-level intelligence. The landmark results obtained by the author will have implications and repercussions for the very foundations of science as a whole. Moreover, Stern's Matrix Logic is suitable for a broad spectrum of practical applications in contemporary technologies.

Author : Gilbert Ryle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0226732959

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The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle Pdf

This now-classic work challenges what Ryle calls philosophy's "official theory, " the Cartesian "myth" of the separation of mind and matter. Ryle's linguistic analysis remaps the conceptual geography of mind, not so much solving traditional philosophical problams as dissolving them into the mere consequences of misguided language. His plain language and essentially simple purpose put him in the tradition of Locke, Berkeley, Mill, and Russell - philisophers whose best work, like Ryle's, has become a part of our general literature.

Author : Insight Kids
Publisher : iSeek
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1647224225

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Train Your Brain: Math Games by Insight Kids Pdf

Make math fun with amazing brain-teasing puzzles! Hours of enjoyment while developing critical thinking skills. Developing critical thinking skills has never been more fun with Train Your Brain: Math Games. Kids will be introduced to math principles through engaging and entertaining mind-bending activities! OVER 50 BRAIN-TEASING PUZZLES: Hours of activities to enjoy! GAMES FOR EVERY BRAIN: Offering a wide variety of puzzles and brain twisters, including word problems, number puzzles, sequence challenges, matching puzzles, grid games, and more! ANSWER KEY: Solutions to every puzzle are provided in the back of the book. SERIES FUN: Collect all titles in this brand-new series with Train Your Brain: Logic Games and more to come!