The Emergent Mind
How Intelligence Arises in People and Machines
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The Emergent Mind
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Narrated by:
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Christopher Ragland
About this listen
When we are trying to solve a problem, what happens? We weigh arguments or rely on intuition before reaching a conscious decision. But what is going on behind the scenes?
In The Emergent Mind, Gaurav Suri and Jay McClelland show that our experience is the tip of an iceberg of brain activity that can be captured in an artificial neural network. Such networks—initially developed as models of ourselves—have become the engines of artificial neural intelligence. Suri and McClelland aren’t reducing mankind to mere machines. Rather, they are showing how a data-driven neural network can create thoughts, emotions, and ideas—a mind—whether in humans or computers.
The Emergent Mind provides a fascinating account of how we reach decisions, why we change our minds, and how we are affected by context and experience. Ultimately, the book gives a new answer to one of our oldest questions: Not just how do minds work, but what is a mind?