Bibliograph

Aristotle's laptop, the discovery of our informational mind, Igor Aleksander, Helen Morton

Type

Label

Aristotle's laptop, the discovery of our informational mind, Igor Aleksander, Helen Morton

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Aristotle's laptop

Medium

electronic resource

Responsibility statement

Igor Aleksander, Helen Morton

Series statement

Series on machine consciousness, vol. 1

Sub title

the discovery of our informational mind

Summary

This title is about a scientific ingredient that was not available to Aristotle: the science of information. Would the course of the philosophy of the mind have been different had Aristotle pronounced that the matter of mind was information?, Aristotle's convincing philosophy is likely to have shaped (even indirectly) many of our current beliefs, prejudices and attitudes to life. This includes the way in which our mind (that is, our capacity to have private thoughts) appears to elude a scientific description. This book is about a scientific ingredient that was not available to Aristotle: the science of information. Would the course of the philosophy of the mind have been different had Aristotle pronounced that the matter of mind was information? This "mind is information" assertion is often heard in contemporary debates, and this book explores the verities and falsehoods of this proposition

Target audience

specialized

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