The Brain from 25,000 Feet (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
330
Utgivningsdatum
2010-12-04
Upplaga
Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003
Förlag
Springer
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XXVI, 330 p.
Dimensioner
234 x 156 x 19 mm
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499 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
1 Paperback / softback
ISBN
9789048162444

The Brain from 25,000 Feet

High Level Explorations of Brain Complexity, Perception, Induction and Vagueness

av Mark A Changizi
Häftad,  Engelska, 2010-12-04
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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.
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    Mark A Changizi

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"This is a very rich and exceedingly well-written book. I learned a lot." (Dan Ryder, University of Connecticut, U.S.A., Synthese 141:2)

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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.

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