Superminds : People Harness Hypercomputation, and More /

This is the first book-length presentation and defense of a new theory of human and machine cognition, according to which human persons are superminds. Superminds are capable of processing information not only at and below the level of Turing machines (standard computers), but above that level (the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bringsjord, Selmer
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Zenzen, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2003.
Series:Studies in cognitive systems ; 29.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Series Preface. Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • 1. What is Supermentalism?- 2. A Refutation of Penrose's Gödelian Case
  • 3. The Argument from Infinity Reasoning
  • 4. Supermentalism and the Fall of Church's Thesis
  • 5. The Zombie Attack on Computationalism
  • 6. The Argument from Irreversibility. 7. What are We? Where'd We Come From?- 8. Supermentalism and the Practice of AI
  • Bibliography.