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In Plato's Camera, eminent philosopher Paul Churchland offers a novel account of how the brain constructs a representation--or 'takes a picture'--of the universe's timeless categorical and dynamical structure.
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In Plato's camera, Paul Churchland is trying to introduce a new
theory of how the human brain learns. His approach is pretty
remarkable because it is completely different from most other
theories like it. His basic concern is to show how the physical
processes in the brain interact with the environment and learn from
it. The first two-thirds of the book deal with neuronal networks in
the brain. These networks are made up of billions of neurons and
trillions ...more
In Plato's camera, Paul Churchland is trying to introduce a new
theory of how the human brain learns. His approach is pretty
remarkable because it is completely different from most other
theories like it. His basic concern is to show how the physical
processes in the brain interact with the environment and learn from
it. The first two-thirds of the book deal with neuronal networks in
the brain. These networks are made up of billions of neurons and
trillions ...more
Warning: This book is really not for folks who are interested in an introduction to cognitive science, philosophy of mind, or philosophy of science. Churchland writes with the baseline expectation of serious academic experience in all three of these areas, and isn't very generous in giving extrapolations of the fundamentals.
The second best book I've read this year, behind Action in Perception, Churchland's writing is wonderfully economical and his arguments are thorough. He does take the optics ...more
The second best book I've read this year, behind Action in Perception, Churchland's writing is wonderfully economical and his arguments are thorough. He does take the optics ...more
Churchland's writing style leaves much to be desired, and I believe he could have said what he needed to say in about 15 pages. However, what he wanted to say was much more, that is, to take what amounted to cheap shots at folk psychology and linguistic theories of cognition. I'm not saying I agree with either or disagree with connectionism, but this book was interminable, and Churchland fails to address main issues like the role of affect, how memories are formed, and where procedural knowledge
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highly interesting, even if not much in this book is new, it is a nice summary of the philosophical position of Paul Churchland
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Paul Churchland is a philosopher noted for his studies in neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. He is currently a Professor at the University of California, San Diego, where he holds the Valtz Chair of Philosophy. Churchland holds a joint appointment with the Cognitive Science Faculty and the Institute for Neural Computation. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1969 unde
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