The Complex Mind - An Interdisciplinary Approach torrent

The Complex Mind: An Interdisciplinary Approach
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David McFarland (et al.) | 2012 | ISBN: 0230247571 | English | 310 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Questions about the minds of humans, other animals and artificial agents are now the subject of intensive research in a number of academic disciplines. This is perhaps one of the first books to combine studies of animal minds, artificial minds and human evolution within a common framework.

The book is in three parts, each focusing on a key aspect of this interdisciplinary agenda. The first part - Complexity and the Animal Mind - focuses on the advances made by comparative psychologists in breaking the mould of traditional learning theory and explaining the intelligent behaviour of primates in terms of information gain and serial search. The second part - Complexity in Robots - focuses on the importance of utilising such ideas in the overall design of artificial autonomous systems. The third part - Language, Evolution and the Complex Mind - brings into view the cognitive products of language evolution in the light of what we now know about what the non-human can achieve through non-verbal means.