 Are We Unique?: A Scientist Explores the Unparalleled Intelligence of the Human Mind
ISBN: 978-0-471-24946-7
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256 pages
February 1998
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Is There Anything Left For Us?
Humans and Animals: The Same but Different.
Of Fleeing Anemones and Smart Lobsters.
Can Animals Talk?
The Brain.
Of Tamping Rods and Grandmother Cells: How the Brain Works.
How Did We Get to Be So Smart?: The Evolution of Intelligence.
Moving Wheels and Moving Electrons: How a Computer Works.
Artificial Intelligence, Learning Machines, and Chinese Rooms.
Why the Brain Is Not a Computer.
Can the Brain Do Something a Computer Can't?: Godel and Penrose.
The Problem of Consciousness.
Consciousness and Complexity.
Is There Anything Left for Us?
Bibliography.
Acknowledgments.
Index.
Humans and Animals: The Same but Different.
Of Fleeing Anemones and Smart Lobsters.
Can Animals Talk?
The Brain.
Of Tamping Rods and Grandmother Cells: How the Brain Works.
How Did We Get to Be So Smart?: The Evolution of Intelligence.
Moving Wheels and Moving Electrons: How a Computer Works.
Artificial Intelligence, Learning Machines, and Chinese Rooms.
Why the Brain Is Not a Computer.
Can the Brain Do Something a Computer Can't?: Godel and Penrose.
The Problem of Consciousness.
Consciousness and Complexity.
Is There Anything Left for Us?
Bibliography.
Acknowledgments.
Index.
