Kinds of minds : toward an understanding of consciousness (Record no. 8207)
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| control field | ASIN0465073514 |
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| fixed length control field | 150507s1997 xxu eng d |
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| International Standard Book Number | 0465073514 (paperback) |
| Terms of availability | $15.95 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780465073511 (paperback) |
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| Terms of availability | 450.00 PKR |
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| Transcribing agency | AUI |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Dennett, Daniel C. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 12431 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Kinds of minds : toward an understanding of consciousness |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Daniel C. Dennett. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Phoenix, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1996. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 184 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 21 cm. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Science masters series. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Combining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, Daniel Dennett leads the reader on a fascinating journey of inquiry, exploring such intriguing possibilities as: Can any of us really know what is going on in someone else���s mind? What distinguishes the human mind from the minds of animals, especially those capable of complex behavior? If such animals, for instance, were magically given the power of language, would their communities evolve an intelligence as subtly discriminating as ours? Will robots, once they have been endowed with sensory systems like those that provide us with experience, ever exhibit the particular traits long thought to distinguish the human mind, including the ability to think about thinking? Dennett addresses these questions from an evolutionary perspective. Beginning with the macromolecules of DNA and RNA, the author shows how, step-by-step, animal life moved from the simple ability to respond to frequently recurring environmental conditions to much more powerful ways of beating the odds, ways of using patterns of past experience to predict the future in never-before-encountered situations. Whether talking about robots whose video-camera ���eyes��� give us the powerful illusion that ���there is somebody in there��� or asking us to consider whether spiders are just tiny robots mindlessly spinning their webs of elegant design, Dennett is a master at finding and posing questions sure to stimulate and even |
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| Uniform title | Science master |
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| Materials specified | Amazon.com |
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| Written off { Not Available } | Dewey Decimal Classification | Air University Central Library Islamabad | Air University Central Library Islamabad | 05/07/2015 | Old Books Collection | 366 | 5 | 128.2 D419K | P7429 | 08/10/2021 | 02/17/2020 | 01/11/2017 | Book | Write off in 2021-22 IBD/AU/231/10/II/LIB |