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Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006
EAN: 9781581129892
ISBN: 1581129890
Label: Brown Walker Press
Manufacturer: Brown Walker Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 424
Publication Date: June 06, 2006
Publisher: Brown Walker Press
Studio: Brown Walker Press
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The Hidden Pattern presents a novel philosophy of mind, intended to form a coherent conceptual framework within which it is possible to understand the diverse aspects of mind and intelligence in a unified way. The central concept of the philosophy presented is the concept of "pattern": minds and the world they live in and co-create are viewed as patterned systems of patterns, evolving over time, and various aspects of subjective experience and individual and social intelligence are analyzed in detail in this light.
Many of the ideas presented are motivated by recent research in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, and the authors own AI research is discussed in moderate detail in one chapter. However, the scope of the book is broader than this, incorporating insights from sources as diverse as Vedantic philosophy, psychedelic psychotherapy, Nietzschean and Peircean metaphysics and quantum theory. One of the unique aspects of the patternist approach is the way it seamlessly fuses the mechanistic, engineering-oriented approach to intelligence and the introspective, experiential approach to intelligence.
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This is a wonderful book.. exciting, well written, logical and brilliant.
I'd recommend it to anyone interested in ideas, social networks, political
development or in psychology, history, philosophy or just about anything
because this guy really knows how to 'connect the dots'!
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I didn't finish this book as I considered that some of his assumptions were not correct and the book was a waste of time for me.
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The Hidden Pattern author Ben Goertzel is nothing if not ambitious. In this book, he is proposing a unified philosophy of the mind and intelligence. He's been thinking about this problem since he was sixteen, more than twenty years. It's all about pattern. Everything is pattern. Of course, it's a lot more complicated than that. I think. To be honest, I'm in over my head with this book. But if Goertzel has the chutzpah to take on all of human intelligence (and beyond), then I guess I can review a book that I don't really understand.
Inspired partly by Douglas Hofstadter's Goedel, Escher, Bach; Goertzel as a teenager came up with a theory of patterns, much as Hofstadter came up with an idea of interconnected braids when he was thirteen. When Hofstadter, in his 20th anniversary edition preface, complains that the reviewers didn't accurately describe what his book was about, he finds that it takes him quite a few pages (the whole book, in fact) to describe what the book is actually ... Read More
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