Full name: Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology

Author: Valentino Braitenberg Year: 1984 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Psychology, Non Fiction, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780262521123 0262521121

These imaginative thought experiments are the inventions of one of the world's eminent brain researchers.These imaginative thought experiments are the inventions of one of the world's eminent brain researchers. They are "vehicles," a series of hypothetical, self-operating machines that exhibit increasingly intricate if not always successful or civilized "behavior." Each of the vehicles in the series incorporates the essential features of all the earlier models and along the way they come to embody aggression, love, logic, manifestations of foresight, concept formation, creative thinking, personality, and free will. In a section of extensive biological notes, Braitenberg locates many elements of his fantasy in current brain research. Similar books: The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe by Steven Novella Emergence by Steven Johnson The Web of Life by Fritjof Capra Quantum Psychology by Robert Anton Wilson The Doctor and the Soul by Viktor E. Frankl A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis The Social Animal by David Brooks The Brain by David Eagleman Incognito by David Eagleman Integral Psychology by Ken Wilber How to Create a Mind by Ray Kurzweil The Divided Self by R. D. Laing The Mind and the Brain by Jeffrey M. Schwartz Entangled Minds by Dean Radin Lying by Sam Harris The Most Human Human by Brian Christian Realms of the Human Unconscious by Stanislav Grof