Shimon Edelman is the author of Representation and Recognition in Vision and of dozens of scholarly publications in theoretical neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence, all focusing on reverse-engineering the human brain. This effort, billed as the Experimental Epistemology Project, has resulted in several breakthroughs in understanding how the brain gives rise to the mind.

• Preface ; I. Foundations ; 1. Brains, Minds, and Numbers ; 2. Computing Minds ; 3. Computing Brains ; 4. The Astonishing Hypothesis ; II. Faculties ; 5. Perception ; 6. Memory ; 7. Language ; 8. Thinking ; III. Finale ; 9. Being No One ; 10. Imagine ; 11. The Mind in the Act of Finding ; Appendices ; A. Bayesian Inference and Decision Making ; B. Mind the Gap ; Bibliography ; Index ; Credits

This is a surprising book. On page 1, I was told that it contains a map of the London Underground; on page 275, I discovered why, and the pages accidentally viewed between had me trapped. Almost every one has an illustration, and the text tells its tale in lucid, well-focused paragraphs. You would learn a lot just from flipping its pages, and I can guarantee that you would also be entertained. If you have the slightest interest in the mind and how it works, you should not let this book slip past you.

Shimon Edelman is the author of Representation and Recognition in Vision and of dozens of scholarly publications in theoretical neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence, all focusing on reverse-engineering the human brain. This effort, billed as the Experimental Epistemology Project, has resulted in several breakthroughs in understanding how the brain gives rise to the mind.

• Preface ; I. Foundations ; 1. Brains, Minds, and Numbers ; 2. Computing Minds ; 3. Computing Brains ; 4. The Astonishing Hypothesis ; II. Faculties ; 5. Perception ; 6. Memory ; 7. Language ; 8. Thinking ; III. Finale ; 9. Being No One ; 10. Imagine ; 11. The Mind in the Act of Finding ; Appendices ; A. Bayesian Inference and Decision Making ; B. Mind the Gap ; Bibliography ; Index ; Credits

This is a surprising book. On page 1, I was told that it contains a map of the London Underground; on page 275, I discovered why, and the pages accidentally viewed between had me trapped. Almost every one has an illustration, and the text tells its tale in lucid, well-focused paragraphs. You would learn a lot just from flipping its pages, and I can guarantee that you would also be entertained. If you have the slightest interest in the mind and how it works, you should not let this book slip past you.

Shimon Edelman is the author of Representation and Recognition in Vision and of dozens of scholarly publications in theoretical neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence, all focusing on reverse-engineering the human brain. This effort, billed as the Experimental Epistemology Project, has resulted in several breakthroughs in understanding how the brain gives rise to the mind.

• Preface ; I. Foundations ; 1. Brains, Minds, and Numbers ; 2. Computing Minds ; 3. Computing Brains ; 4. The Astonishing Hypothesis ; II. Faculties ; 5. Perception ; 6. Memory ; 7. Language ; 8. Thinking ; III. Finale ; 9. Being No One ; 10. Imagine ; 11. The Mind in the Act of Finding ; Appendices ; A. Bayesian Inference and Decision Making ; B. Mind the Gap ; Bibliography ; Index ; Credits

This is a surprising book. On page 1, I was told that it contains a map of the London Underground; on page 275, I discovered why, and the pages accidentally viewed between had me trapped. Almost every one has an illustration, and the text tells its tale in lucid, well-focused paragraphs. You would learn a lot just from flipping its pages, and I can guarantee that you would also be entertained. If you have the slightest interest in the mind and how it works, you should not let this book slip past you.