What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence
(Paperback)
By: John Brockman
ISBN: 9780062425652
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2015
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Michael C. Corballis
ISBN: 9780691145471
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. This book argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts. It shows how the recursive mind was critical to survival in the harsh conditions of the Pleistocene epoch.
