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The Muse in the Machine David Hillel Gelernter

The Muse in the Machine By David Hillel Gelernter

The Muse in the Machine by David Hillel Gelernter


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Designed for a wide audience, this book claims that the standard approach to human thought is wrong in fundamental ways. The author argues that emotion is a necessary part of thought and so a thinking computer will not be possible until a feeling computer is possible.

The Muse in the Machine Summary

The Muse in the Machine: Computers and Creative Thought by David Hillel Gelernter

Designed for a wide audience, this book claims that the standard approach to human thought is wrong in fundamental ways. The author challenges, in particular, the views of Daniel Dennett ("Consciousness Explained") and Roger Penrose ("The Emperor's New Mind"): first, emotion is a necessary part of thought and so a thinking computer will not be possible until a feeling computer is possible; second, reasoning, logic and analysis are only part of the way we think - there are also other kinds of thinking, such as poetic and religious; third, the nature of thought is intertwined with the nature of art. He also discusses philosophy, psychology, technology, art and literature, in particular the poetry of Wordsworth, Blake, Keats and the Bible.

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GOR006646428
9781857020830
1857020839
The Muse in the Machine: Computers and Creative Thought by David Hillel Gelernter
Used - Very Good
Hardback
HarperCollins Publishers
1994-05-23
288
N/A
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