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By: Gelernter, David
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Liveright: February 2016
Seller ID: 351702
ISBN: 0871403803
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very Good
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 arti...
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