Bibliograph

The tides of mind, uncovering the spectrum of consciousness, David Gelernter

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The tides of mind, uncovering the spectrum of consciousness, David Gelernter

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The tides of mind

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

David Gelernter

Sub title

uncovering the spectrum of consciousness

Summary

The holy grail of psychologists and scientists for nearly a century has been to understand and replicate both human thought and the human mind. In fact, it's what attracted the now-legendary computer scientist and AI authority David Gelernter to the discipline in the first place. As a student and young researcher in the 1980s, Gelernter hoped to build a program with a dial marked "focus." At maximum "focus," the program would "think" rationally, formally, reasonably. As the dial was turned down and "focus" diminished, its "mind" would start to wander, and as you dialed even lower, this artificial mind would start to free-associate, eventually ignoring the user completely as it cruised off into the mental adventures we know as sleep

Target audience

adult

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