My grandmother had a form of aphasia after a stroke. About half of what she said was nonsense for the last year of her life. And what was really sad was that she knew she was speaking nonsense. Very distressing for all concerned.
How The Mind Works
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Study of Mind 3rd Edition
by Jay D. Friedenberg (Author), Gordon W. Silverman (Author)
by Jay D. Friedenberg (Author), Gordon W. Silverman (Author)
We do not know, in detail, what thoughts or memories are. The book brings us up to date on what we know so far. Neurons and brains are explained, plus a lot of detail in each chapter on what part of the brain we might be getting detial. As "cognitive" it takes in a lot of detail as the result of psychology and aninmal experiments. We know how these memories behave, we know the model of the world the brain creates for us.
For the layman, most terms are explained. Look up schemate, for examle.
Chapter 7 on Networks brings in the example of Artificial Intelligence. Large Language Models turn words into a statistical network the AI can access, mostly to work out how one word related to another. We are to assume that the mind does some sort of similar process. When we observe something familiar, your brain is working with pattern recognitiona and predicting how things will go from there. The working memory is involved with the current problem, and you can work out some kind of decision. However, your unconscious mind can be processing information as well. For the AI part, chapter 12 goes into more detail on that.
Though we can only hold so many terms in short term memory, it is obvious your brain is nevertheless able to handle mor in parallel. Another short book on this very topic is David Eagleman's "Incognito."
Do you know more than you did before? On humans, somewhat. I've looked into a number of books on AI, and it is quite difficult to get past the basic setup of the language models. It gets into a lot of math past that point.
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Had to fix that a bit.
The "reviews" on college texts (college!) tend to rate the seller and the shape of the book. Not what the reviews are for, content.
The "reviews" on college texts (college!) tend to rate the seller and the shape of the book. Not what the reviews are for, content.
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It doesn't matter, give me Mumdane pie
Inhibition, well, you can fly
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It will mess your suit, it will make you cry
It doesn't matter, give me Mumdane pie
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This Is Your Brain on Music by Dr Daniel Levitin might be something you'd enjoy Tero.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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I vaguely remember it. We had a retired lady that ran a college music department give us music lectures.
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It doesn't matter, give me Mumdane pie
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