The Brain from 25,000 Feet
High Level Explorations of Brain Complexity, Perception, Induction and Vagueness
Seiten
2010
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Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-6244-4 (ISBN)
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-6244-4 (ISBN)
In The Brain from 25,000 Feet, Mark A. The author tackles such questions as why the brain is folded, and why animals have as many limbs as they do, explaining how these relate to principles of network optimality.
In The Brain from 25,000 Feet, Mark A. Changizi defends a non-reductionist philosophy and applies it to a variety of problems in the brain sciences. Some of the key questions answered are as follows. Why do we see visual illusions, and why are illusions inevitable for any finite-speed vision machine? Why aren't brains universal learning machines, and what does the riddle of induction and its solution have to do with human learning and innateness? The author tackles such questions as why the brain is folded, and why animals have as many limbs as they do, explaining how these relate to principles of network optimality. He describes how most natural language words are vague and then goes on to explain the connection to the ultimate computational limits on machines. There is also a fascinating discussion of how animals accommodate greater behavioral complexity. This book is a must-read for researchers interested in taking a high-level, non-mechanistic approach to answering age-old fundamental questions in the brain sciences.
In The Brain from 25,000 Feet, Mark A. Changizi defends a non-reductionist philosophy and applies it to a variety of problems in the brain sciences. Some of the key questions answered are as follows. Why do we see visual illusions, and why are illusions inevitable for any finite-speed vision machine? Why aren't brains universal learning machines, and what does the riddle of induction and its solution have to do with human learning and innateness? The author tackles such questions as why the brain is folded, and why animals have as many limbs as they do, explaining how these relate to principles of network optimality. He describes how most natural language words are vague and then goes on to explain the connection to the ultimate computational limits on machines. There is also a fascinating discussion of how animals accommodate greater behavioral complexity. This book is a must-read for researchers interested in taking a high-level, non-mechanistic approach to answering age-old fundamental questions in the brain sciences.
Preface.- 1: Scaling in Nervous Networks. 1.1. The mammalian neocortex.- 1.2. Complexity in brain and behavior.- 1.3. The shape of limbed animals.- 2: Inevitability of Illusions.- 2.1. Visual inferences.- 2.2. A simple latency correction model.- 2.3. Explaining the geometrical illusions.- 2.4. Further directions for latency correction. 3: Induction and Innateness.- 3.1. Paradigm Theory.- 3.2. Applications.- 3.3. "Solution" to riddle and theory of innateness.- 4: Consequences of a Finite Brain.- 4.1. Vagueness, the phenomenon.- 4.2. Unseeable holes in our concepts.- 4.3. From theory to vagueness.- 4.4. Discussion.- Bibliography.- Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.12.2010 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Synthese Library ; 317 |
| Zusatzinfo | XXVI, 330 p. |
| Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Informatik ► Grafik / Design ► Film- / Video-Bearbeitung | |
| Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-481-6244-0 / 9048162440 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-481-6244-4 / 9789048162444 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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