From Bradford Books:

What is Thought?

Eric B. Baum

Table of Contents

1.Introduction1
2.The Mind is a Computer Program33
3.The Turing Test, the Chinese Room, and What Computers Can't Do67
4.Occam's Razor and Understanding79
5.Optimization107
6.Remarks on Occam's Razor129
7.Reinforcement Learning145
8.Exploiting Structure165
9.Modules and Metaphors215
10.Evolutionary Programming233
11.Intractability271
12.The Evolution of Learning303
13.Language and the Evolution of Thought349
14.The Evolution of Consciousness385
15.What is Thought?437
Notes443
References455
Index465

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