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Mind and mechanism
"A Bradford book.""In Mind and Mechanism, Drew McDermott takes a computational approach to the mind-body problem (how it is that a purely physical entity, the brain, can have experiences). He begins by demonstrating the falseness of dualist approaches, which separate the physical and mental realms. He then surveys what has been accomplished in artificial intelligence, clearly differentiating wh…
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- 9780262256650
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 262 pages) :illustrations.
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Microcognition :philosophy, cognitive science, and parallel distributed proce…
"A Bradford book."Parallel distributed processing is transforming the field of cognitive science. Microcognition provides a clear, readable guide to this emerging paradigm from a cognitive philosopher's point of view. It explains and explores the biological basis of PDP, its psychological importance, and its philosophical relevance.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585002967
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages).
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Noise, water, meat :a history of sound in the arts
Originally published: 1999.An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts.This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it--to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruse…
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- 0262276674
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- 1 online resource (ix, 455 pages)
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The rapid evaluation of potential fields in particle systems
"Leslie Greengard received his doctorate from Yale University where he is a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the Computer Science Department. The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems is a 1987 ACM Distinguished Dissertation.""The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems presents a group of algorithms for the computation of the potential and force fields in large-sc…
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- 9780262256254
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- 1 online resource (iv, 90 pages) :illustrations.
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The psychology of art and the evolution of the conscious brain
How did the human brain evolve so that consciousness of art could develop? In The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain, Robert Solso describes how a consciousness that evolved for other purposes perceives and creates art. Drawing on his earlier book Cognition and the Visual Arts and ten years of new findings in cognitive research (as well as new ideas in anthropology and a…
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- 9780262284059
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- 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) :illustrations.
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Requiem for communism
The first survey of the recent requiems for communism by European writers and artists.In Requiem for Communism Charity Scribner examines the politics of memory in postindustrial literature and art. Writers and artists from Europe's second world have responded to the last socialist crisis with works that range from sober description to melancholic fixation. This book is the first survey of this …
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- 9780262283335
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- 1 online resource (xii, 245 pages) :illustrations
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Snap to grid :a user's guide to digital arts, media, and cultures
"In Snap to Grid, an idiosyncratic guide to the interactive, telematic era, Peter Lunenfeld maps out the trajectories that digital technologies have traced upon our cultural imaginary. His evaluation of new media includes an impassioned discussion - informed by the discourses of technology, aesthetics, and cultural theory - of the digital artists, designers, and makers who matter most. "Snap to…
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- 058528850X
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 226 pages) :illustrations
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Shaping the network society :the new role of civil society in cyberspace
"An outgrowth of the Seventh DIAC symposium held in Seattle in 2000"--Introduction.Information and computer technologies are used every day by real people with real needs. The authors contributing to Shaping the Network Society describe how technology can be used effectively by communities, activists, and citizens to meet society's challenges. In their vision, computer professionals are concern…
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- 9780262283250
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- 1 online resource (x, 433 pages) :maps
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Shape :talking about seeing and doing
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- 9780262316330
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- 1 online resource (422 pages) :illustrations
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Women, art, and technology
A sourcebook of documentation on women artists at the forefront of work at the intersection of art and technology.Although women have been at the forefront of art and technology creation, no source has adequately documented their core contributions to the field. Women, Art, and Technology, which originated in a Leonardo journal project of the same name, is a compendium of the work of women arti…
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- 9780262278966
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- 1 online resource (xxix, 541 pages) :illustrations.
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