Full name: Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds

Author: Daniel C. Dennett Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, Science, Psychology, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780140265637 9780262540902 0140265635 0262540908

Minds are complex artifacts, partly biological and partly social; only a unified, multidisciplinary approach will yield a realistic theory of how they came into existence and how they work. One of the foremost workers in this multidisciplinary field is Daniel Dennett. This book brings together his essays on the philosphy of mind, artificial intelligence, and cognitive ethology that appeared in inaccessible journals from 1984 to 1996. Highlights include "Can Machines Think?", "The Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies", "Artificial Life as Philosophy", and "Animal Consciousness: What Matters and Why". Collected in a single volume, the essays are now available to a wider audience. Similar books: From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel C. Dennett Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett Brainstorms by Daniel C. Dennett Kinds of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett Breaking the Spell by Daniel C. Dennett Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter The Conscious Mind by David J. Chalmers Being There by Andy Clark Being No One by Thomas Metzinger The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger The Rediscovery of the Mind by John R. Searle Sweet Dreams by Daniel C. Dennett Conversations on Consciousness by Susan Blackmore The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram Lying by Sam Harris On Dialogue by David Bohm Philosophy in the Flesh by George Lakoff The Illusion of Conscious Will by Daniel M. Wegner