In the Image of the Brain: Breaking the Barrier Between the Human Mind and Intelligent Machines

by Jim Jubak

Shows how a colorful cast of scientists is using their expanding knowledge of the brain and its evolution to make machines sense and think like human beings. National ad/promo.

348 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1992

Reviews

[Paul H.]

Page 290: "We have instinctively for centuries maintained that there was this nonphysical thing, which we certainly could neither explain nor even identify, that did the thinking, had the thoughts, contained our psychology, was our personality. We've pushed deep enough into the brain, now, so that it really looks like maybe this mental thing doesn't exist. Our mind really is just a phenomenon of all that wet stuff. . . . from an objective, scientific point of view one can only conclude that neurons are all there is."

Someone get this guy a Philosophy 101 class, lol

[Jay Reynolds]

"In the Image of the Brain" is an engaging, non-technical introduction to connectionist based approaches to artificial intelligence - mainly concerning multilayer perceptrons and Hopfield networks. Though the information presented is somewhat dated at this point in time, this book offers an interesting historical narrative that can't be found in more technical introductory texts.