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A Theory Of Sentience
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Author : Austen Clark
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2000
A Theory Of Sentience written by Austen Clark and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Drawing on the findings of neuroscience, this text proposes and defends the hypothesis that the various modalities of sensation share a generic form that the author, Austen Clark, calls feature-placing.
Sentience
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Author : Nicholas Humphrey
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2024-04-02
Sentience written by Nicholas Humphrey and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-02 with Science categories.
The story of a quest to uncover the evolutionary history of consciousness from a leading theoretical psychologist. We feel, therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self. They are crucial to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, existent, and mattering. But is it only humans who feel this way? Do other animals? Will future machines? Weaving together intellectual adventure and cutting-edge science, Nicholas Humphrey describes in Sentience his quest for answers: from his discovery of blindsight in monkeys and his pioneering work on social intelligence to breakthroughs in the philosophy of mind. The goal is to solve the hard problem: to explain the wondrous, eerie fact of “phenomenal consciousness”—the redness of a poppy, the sweetness of honey, the pain of a bee sting. What does this magical dimension of experience amount to? What is it for? And why has it evolved? Humphrey presents here his new solution. He proposes that phenomenal consciousness, far from being primitive, is a relatively late and sophisticated evolutionary development. The implications for the existence of sentience in nonhuman animals are startling and provocative.
The Art Of Fugue
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Author : Wallace I. Matson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-04-29
The Art Of Fugue written by Wallace I. Matson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-29 with Philosophy categories.
"Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine," Gilbert Ryle has said. "He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man." Wallace Matson has made the venture. Even though he finds no valid objection to the conception of mind as nothing over and above functioning of the nervous system, he argues that nevertheless no existing or imagined machine models the nature of that function. Sentience is not just reception of information, bit is what he calls "sizing up" -- picking out of a situation those features that are more important, apperceiving the whole which they compose, relating to this while to the creature's interest, and deciding what to do about it. Matson shows how sizing up makes possible free action in the positive sense of action to which conscious deliberation makes a difference. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
Consciousness And Robot Sentience Second Edition
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Author : Haikonen Pentti O A
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2019-05-23
Consciousness And Robot Sentience Second Edition written by Haikonen Pentti O A and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-23 with Technology & Engineering categories.
THIS BOOK is the fully revised and updated second edition of 'Consciousness and Robot Sentience'. With lots of new material, it will provide new insights into artificial intelligence (AI) and machine consciousness, beyond materials published in the first edition. The organization of this book has been streamlined for better clarity and continuity of the lines of arguments.The perspective of AI has been added to this edition. It is shown that contemporary AI has a hidden problem, which prevents it from becoming a true intelligent agent. A self-evident solution to this problem is given in this book.This solution is surprisingly connected with the concepts of qualia, the mind-body problem and consciousness. These are the hard problems of consciousness that so far have been without viable solution. Unfortunately, the solution to the hidden problem of AI cannot be satisfactorily implemented, unless the phenomena of qualia and consciousness are first understood. In this book an explanation of consciousness is presented, one that rejects material and immaterial substances, dualism, panpsychism, emergence and metaphysics. What remains is obvious. This explanation excludes consciousness in digital computers, but allows the artificial creation of consciousness in one natural-like way, by associative non-computational neural networks.The proof of a theory calls for empirical verification. In this case, the proof could be in the form of a sentient robot. This book describes a step towards this in the form of the author's small experimental robot XCR-1. This robot has evolved through the years, and has now new cognitive abilities, which are described.
Sentience And Sensibility
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Author : Matthew R. Silliman
language : en
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Release Date : 2006-11-30
Sentience And Sensibility written by Matthew R. Silliman and has been published by Parmenides Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-30 with Philosophy categories.
Sentience and Sensibility is a dialogue that engages a number of issues in moral theory in a rigorous and original manner, while remaining accessible to students and other nonspecialist readers. It accomplishes this by means of the time-honored (if presently dormant) medium of philosophical dialogue, in which its characters actively challenge each other to clarify their ideas and defend their reasoning. In this manner the conversation develops and weighs some proposed solutions, in largely non-technical language, to a number of current and traditional moral problems (including the nature and origin of moral value, the moral status of nonhuman animals, problems of partiality, and other vexed topics).Moral philosophy and theory can seem as remote and intimidating as everyday ethical matters and moral intuitions are pressing. Sentience and Sensibility proposes that these two should meet. The book's characters gently challenge each other to clarify their thinking and defend their reasoning, and in this rigorous yet personable manner explore traditional and fresh takes on morality. The conversation aims not only to discover thoughtful answers to such questions, but to do so while being respectful of both philosophical theory and ordinary moral intuitions
Consciousness And Robot Sentience
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Author : Pentti O. A. Haikonen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-05-15
Consciousness And Robot Sentience written by Pentti O. A. Haikonen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with categories.
THIS BOOK is the fully revised and updated second edition of "Consciousness and Robot Sentience". With lots of new material, it will provide new insights into artificial intelligence (AI) and machine consciousness, beyond materials published in the first edition. The organization of this book has been streamlined for better clarity and continuity of the lines of arguments. The perspective of AI has been added to this edition. It is shown that contemporary AI has a hidden problem, which prevents it from becoming a true intelligent agent. A self-evident solution to this problem is given in this book. This solution is surprisingly connected with the concepts of qualia, the mind-body problem and consciousness. These are the hard problems of consciousness that so far have been without viable solution. Unfortunately, the solution to the hidden problem of AI cannot be satisfactorily implemented, unless the phenomena of qualia and consciousness are first understood. In this book an explanation of consciousness is presented, one that rejects material and immaterial substances, dualism, panpsychism, emergence and metaphysics. What remains is obvious. This explanation excludes consciousness in digital computers, but allows the artificial creation of consciousness in one natural-like way, by associative non-computational neural networks. The proof of a theory calls for empirical verification. In this case, the proof could be in the form of a sentient robot. This book describes a step towards this in the form of the author's small experimental robot XCR-1. This robot has evolved through the years, and has now new cognitive abilities, which are described.
From Sentience To Symbols
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Author : John Pickering
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
From Sentience To Symbols written by John Pickering and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Philosophy categories.
The Sentient Cell
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Author : Arthur S. Reber
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-09-08
The Sentient Cell written by Arthur S. Reber and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-08 with Psychology categories.
All species, extant and extinct, from the simplest unicellular prokaryotes to humans, have an existential consciousness. Without sentience, the first cells that emerged some 4 billion years ago would have been evolutionary dead-ends, unable to survive in the chaotic, dangerous environment in which life first appeared and evolved. In this book, Arthur Reber's theory, the Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC), is outlined and distinguished from those models that argue that minds could be instantiated on artificial entities and those that maintain consciousness requires a nervous system. The CBC framework takes a novel approach to classic topics such as the origin-of-life, philosophy of mind, the role of genes, the impact of cognition, and how biological information is processed by all species. It also calls for a rethinking of a variety of issues including the moral implications of the sentient capacities of all species, how welfare concerns need to be expanded beyond where they currently are, and critically, how all life is intertwined in a coordinated cognitive ecology. The Sentient Cell explores this revolutionary model, which updates the standard neo-Darwinian framework within which current approaches operate and examines the underlying biomolecular features that are the likely candidates for the "invention" of consciousness and outline their role in cellular life.
Sentience Physics
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Author : Brian K. Fitzgibbon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-02-15
Sentience Physics written by Brian K. Fitzgibbon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-15 with categories.
This revolutionary book postulates the existence of Sentience Physics, a third form of physics that is exclusive to life forms and human life in particular. 22 proven phenomena (grouped into three categories) that are unable to be explained by classical physics are detailed from opposing points of view in layman's terms. The sections on the proofs of their validity and what precisely can't be explained are particularly impressive. The first group consists of little-known and mysterious aspects of phenomena that bring about changes to and healing of the human mind and body. They are Acupuncture, TENS machines, Kirlian Photography, Placebos, Hypnosis, NLP, Spontaneous Remissions, Faith Healing and Stigmata. Next are seemingly impossible human abilities such as Feats of Savants, Automatic Writing, Mental Telepathy, Clairvoyance, Precognition, and Psychokinesis. Finally are human-related natural phenomena such as The Aura, Near-Death-Experiences, Reincarnation, Crisis Apparitions, Communicating with Spirits, Poltergeists, and Demonic Possession and Exorcism. Also included in this exciting, well-structured, easy-to-read book are various theories in explanation of these phenomena. It concludes with a statement of the theory of Sentience Physics and a petition to the world's Academies of Science to recognize and legitimize these phenomena and the colossal body of existing research going back over 150 years. Readers are encouraged to participate in the petition. An audacious book which mounts a major assault on what it calls the Citadel of Classic Physics. It challenges science to move on from its present untenable and unrealistic attitude and accept the reality of Sentience Physics. This will bring many important benefits to humankind as well as opening an exciting new frontier that will significantly advance our understanding of the true nature of life. "I have had a near-death-experience and Brian describes it as if
Neuroethics And Nonhuman Animals
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Author : L. Syd M Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-03-06
Neuroethics And Nonhuman Animals written by L. Syd M Johnson and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-06 with Medical categories.
This edited volume represents a unique addition to the available literature on animal ethics, animal studies, and neuroethics. Its goal is to expand discussions on animal ethics and neuroethics by weaving together different threads: philosophy of mind and animal minds, neuroscientific study of animal minds, and animal ethics. Neuroethical questions concerning animals’ moral status, animal minds and consciousness, animal pain, and the adequacy of animal models for neuropsychiatric disease have long been topics of debate in philosophy and ethics, and more recently also in neuroscientific research. The book presents a transdisciplinary blend of voices, underscoring different perspectives on the broad questions of how neuroscience can contribute to our understanding of nonhuman minds, and on debates over the moral status of nonhuman animals. All chapters were written by outstanding scholars in philosophy, neuroscience, animal behavior, biology, neuroethics, and bioethics, and cover a range of issues and species/taxa. Given its scope, the book will appeal to scientists and students interested in the debate on animal ethics, while also offering an important resource for future researchers. Chapter 13 is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.