Ever wondered who you are? Who you really are? This collection
of writings and reflections by some of today''s most notable
thinkers is designed to enliven this most central, and most
baffling, question in the philosophy of mind. In some ways, the
questions posed and bantered about in this book are at the heart of
all philosophical reasoning. They are the ultimate questions about
the self. The Mind''s I contains an astonishing variety of
approaches to answering the question, "Who am I?" Bet
內容簡介:
From some of the 20th century''s greatest thinkers, essays on
topics as diverse as artificial intelligence, evolution, science
fiction, philosophy, reductionism, and consciousness With
contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle,
and Robert Nozick, The Mind''s I explores the meaning of self and
consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artificial
intelligence, psychology, and other disciplines. In selections that
range from fiction to scientific speculations about thinking
machines, artificial intelligence, and the nature of the brain,
Hofstadter and Dennett present a variety of conflicting visions of
the self and the soul as explored through the writings of some of
the twentieth century''s most renowned thinkers.
關於作者:
Douglas Hofstadter is College Professor of Cognitive Science
and Computer Science, director of the Center for Research on
Concepts and Cognition, and adjunct professor of philosophy,
psychology, history and philosophy of science, and comparative
literature at Indiana University. Daniel C. Dennett is
Distinguished Arts and Sciences Professor, Professor of Philosophy,
and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts
University.