I hope this book will be useful to everyone who seeks ideas about how human minds might work, or who wants suggestions about better ways to think, or who aims toward building smarter machines. It should be useful to readers who want to learn about the field of Artificial Intelligence. It should also be of interest to psychologists, neurologists, computer scientists, and philosophers because it develops many new ideas about the subjects those specialists struggle with.
We all admire great accomplishments in the sciences, arts, and humanities - but we rarely acknowledge how much we achieve in the course of our everyday lives. We recognize the things we see, we understand the words we hear, and we remember things that we've experienced so that, later, we can apply what we've learned to other kinds of problems and opportunities.
We also do a remarkable thing that no other creatures seem able to do: ... read full excerpt from: The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind ebook
Review: This book is absolutely Incredible.. I learned tons, and even incorporated some of my own nuances, and subtle movements to complement the ones listed in this ...more