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The Cerebral Code
The Cerebral Code is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes could operate in the brain to shape mental images in only seconds, starting with shuffled memories no better …
Beyond Analytic Philosophy
This cogent and knowledgeable critique of the tradition of modern analytic philosophy focuses on the work of its central figures-Russell, Carnap, and Quine-and finds it wanting. In …
A Logical Journey
Hao Wang (1921-1995) was one of the few confidants of the great mathematician and logician Kurt Goedel. A Logical Journey is a continuation of Wang's Reflections on Goedel and also …
Mental Leaps
In this text the authors discuss how analogy works and how it can be used most effectively. This account of the diverse operations and applications of analogy includes …
Cognitive Carpentry
A sequel to Pollock's How to Build a Person, this volume builds upon that theoretical groundwork for the implementation of rationality through artificial intelligence. Pollock …
Visual Cognition
These essays tackle some of the central issues in visual cognition, presenting experimental techniques from cognitive psychology, new ways of modeling cognitive processes on …
Nanotechnology
Technology is becoming molecularly precise. Nanotechnology, otherwise known as molecular engineering, will soon create effective machines as small as DNA. This capacity to …
Cellular Biophysics
Cellular Biophysics is a quantitatively oriented basic physiology text for senior undergraduate and graduate students in bioengineering, biophysics, physiology, and neuroscience …
Visual Agnosia
The cognitive neuroscience of human vision draws on two kinds of evidence: functional imaging of normal subjects and the study of neurological patients with visual disorders. …
Reflections on Kurt Gödel
Kurt Goedel was indisputably one of the greatest thinkers of our time, and in this first extended treatment of his life and work, Hao Wang, who was in close contact with Goedel in …
About Face
What is special about the face, and what happens when neurological conditions make expression or comprehension of the face unavailable? Through a mix of science, autobiography, …