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The Spontaneous Brain: From the Mind–Body to the World–Brain Problem
An argument for a Copernican revolution in our consideration of mental features -- a shift in which the world-brain problem supersedes the mind-body problem. Philosophers have long debated the mind-body problem -- whether to attribute such mental features as consciousness to mind or to body. Meanwhile, neuroscientists search for empirical answers, seeking neural correlates for consciousness, se…
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- 9780262346962
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- 1 online resource (xxvi, 506 pages) :illustrations
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Associative engines :connectionism, concepts, and representational change
"A Bradford book."Connectionist approaches, Andy Clark argues, are driving cognitive science toward a radical reconception of its explanatory endeavor. At the heart of this reconception lies a shift toward a new and more deeply developmental vision of the mind - a vision that has important implications for the philosophical and psychological understanding of the nature of concepts, of mental ca…
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- 9780262270427
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages) :illustrations
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Asymmetry in morphology
Di Sciullo argues that the asymmetric property of morphological relations is part of the language facility. She proposes a theory of grammar, Asymmetry Theory, according to which generic operations have specific instantiations in parallel deviations of the computational space.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262302845
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- 1 online resource (xix, 234 pages) :illustrations.
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At a distance :precursors to art and activism on the Internet
Networked collaborations of artists did not begin on the Internet. In this multidisciplinary look at the practice of art that takes place across a distance -- geographical, temporal, or emotional -- theorists and practitioners examine the ways that art, activism, and media fundamentally reconfigured each other in experimental networked projects of the 1970s and 1980s. By providing a context for…
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- 9780262270144
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 486 pages) :illustrations.
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Attention and Performance XV :conscious and nonconscious information processing
"Based on the papers that were presented at the Fifteenth International Symposium on Attention and Performance held ... Erice, Sicily, Italy, July 26-31, 1992."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285360
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- 1 online resource (xix, 945 pages) :illustrations, portraits.
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Attention and Performance XVII :cognitive regulation of performance, interact…
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- 9780262315777
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 814 pages) :illustrations, portrait.
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The balancing act :combining symbolic and statistical approaches to language
Selected papers, rev., of a workshop held at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, N.M., on July 1, 1994.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277235
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- 1 online resource (xii, 186 pages) :illustrations.
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Balkan as metaphor :between globalization and fragmentation
Pioneering essays on the idea of the Balkan as a body of knowledge and a cultural metaphor.Balkan. Somewhere between a tragedy and a myth, a place and a condition, the term is perhaps best understood as a metaphor. It has been used and abused in academia by proponents of opposing political views. Multiculturalism has appropriated it, as have postmodernism and postcommunism. It is used pejorativ…
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- 1 online resource (xii, 382 pages)
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Banking on the environment :multilateral development banks and their environm…
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are increasingly expected to address environmental issues in their economic development lending. Yet the banks have been accused of failing to implement their own environmental policies, thereby contributing to environmental degradation in borrowing countries. In this book Tamar Gutner analyzes the environmental policies of three MDBs: the World Bank, the E…
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- 9780262274531
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- 1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Baroness Elsa :gender, dada, and everyday modernity : a cultural biography
Title from e-book title screen (viewed Nov. 1, 2005).The first biography of the enigmatic dadaist known as "the Baroness"--Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927) is considered by many to be the first American dadaist as well as the mother of dada. An innovator in poetic form and an early creator of junk sculpture, "the Baroness" was best known for her sexually cha…
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- 1st MIT Press pbk. ed., 2003.
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- 9780262273435
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