Why Brains Don't Compute

ISBN-13: 9783030710637 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 168 str.

Dale Purves

Recenzje

"I highly recommend this volume for behavioral, cognitive, and evolutionary neuroscientists." (Paul Tibbetts, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 97 (2), June, 2022)

Spis treści

Preface

 

PART I. TWO REALITIES

 

Chapter 1. Solving Problems

 

Chapter 2. Objective and Subjective Reality

 

PART II. Computation

 

Chapter 3. Algorithms

 

Chapter 4. Coding for Computers

 

PART III. ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS

 

Chapter 5. Neural Networks

 

Chapter 6. The Resurrection of Neural Networks

 

Chapter 7. Reinforcement Learning

 

Part IV. perception

 

Chapter 8. What We Perceive

 

Chapter 9. Lines and Intervals

 

Chapter 10. Angles

 

Chapter 11. Lightness and Darkness

 

Chapter 12. Empirical Ranking

 

Chapter 13. Color

 

Chapter 14. Colorimetry

 

Chapter 15. Motion Speed

 

Chapter 16. Motion Direction

 

Chapter 17. Size

 

Chapter 18. Stereopsis

 

PART V. Linking OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE

 

Chapter 19. Stimuli and Behavior

 

Chapter 20. Associations

 

Chapter 21. Mechanisms

 

Chapter 22. Reflexes

 

PART VI. THEORIES

 

Chapter 23. Feature Detection

 

Chapter 24. Statistical Inference

 

Chapter 25. Information Theory

 

PART VII. SELF AWARENESS

 

Chapter 26. Awareness

 

Chapter 27. Summing Up

O autorze

Dale Purves is the George B. Geller Professor of Neurobiology Emeritus in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences where he remains Research Professor with additional appointments in the department of Psychology and Brain Sciences and the department of Philosophy at Duke University. After earning a B.A. from Yale, an M.D. from Harvard and additional postdoctoral training at Harvard and University College London, he joined the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in 1973.  In 1990 he became  the founding chair of the Department of Neurobiology at Duke Medical Center and was subsequently Director of Duke's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. He also served as the Director of the Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore .

Best known for his work on neural development and synaptic plasticity, Purves’ research during the last 20 years has sought to explain visual  perception and auditory perception in the context of music. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is the author, and co-author or editor of 18 previous books on neuroscience.

Blurb

This book examines what seems to be the basic challenge in neuroscience today: understanding how experience generated by the human brain is related to the physical world we live in. The 25 short chapters present the argument and evidence that brains address this problem on a wholly trial and error basis. 

The goal is to encourage neuroscientists, computer scientists, philosophers, and other interested readers to consider this concept of neural function and its implications, not least of which is the conclusion that brains don’t “compute.”