After Thought

The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence

By: James Bailey

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Paperback | 16 May 1997 | Edition Number 1

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Through the first fifty years of the computer revolution, scientists have been trying to program electronic circuits to process information the same way humans do. Doing so has reassured us all that underlying every new computer capability, no matter how miraculously fast or complex, are human thought processes and logic. But cutting-edge computer scientists are coming to see that electronic circuits really are alien, that the difference between the human mind and computer capability is not merely one of degree (how fast), but of kind(how). The author suggests that computers “think” best when their “thoughts” are allowed to emerge from the interplay of millions of tiny operations all interacting with each other in parallel. Why then, if computers bring to the table such very different strengths and weaknesses, are we still trying to program them to think like humans? A work that ranges widely over the history of ideas from Galileo to Newton to Darwin yet is just as comfortable in the cutting-edge world of parallel processing that is at this very moment yielding a new form of intelligence, After Thought describes why the real computer age is just beginning.

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Non-Fiction Science Science in General Philosophy of Science Society & Social Sciences Computing & I.T.Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Miscellaneous Items Human-Computer Interaction

Reassigning the Tasks of the Mind	p. 1
The Master Thought Process of the Modern World	p. 13
The Book of Nature	p. 22
of the Book of Nature: Place	p. 34
The First Fiction	p. 37
An Emergent Fable of Astronomers and Stars	p. 50
The Computer Within Living Memory	p. 60
Listening to Data	p. 69
of the Book of Nature: Pace	p. 82
The Maths of the Industrial Age	p. 85
The Advent of New Sciences and New Maths	p. 100
Listening to Neuron	p. 113
of the Book of Nature: Pattern	p. 124
The New Intermaths of the Information Age	p. 127
The Patterns Within Life	p. 136
The Life Within Patterns	p. 148
Computing the Patterns of Societies and Economies	p. 159
Computing the New Realities of the Information Age	p. 172
Computing the Patterns of Bodies and Minds	p. 186
Listening to Life	p. 197
The Aftermath	p. 211
Acknowledgments	p. 223
Notes	p. 225
Bibliography	p. 243
Index	p. 267
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