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The Brain from 25000 Feet High Level Explorations of Brain Complexity Perception Induction and Vagueness - Synthese Library
Author: Mark Changizi

In The Brain from 25,000 Feet, Mark A. Changizi defends a non-reductionist philosophy and applies it to a variety of problems in the brain sciences. Some of the key questions answered are as follows. Why do we see visual illusions, and why are illusions inevitable for any finite-speed vision machine? Why aren't brains universal learning mac...  more »hines, and what does the riddle of induction and its solution have to do with human learning and innateness? The author tackles such questions as why the brain is folded, and why animals have as many limbs as they do, explaining how these relate to principles of network optimality. He describes how most natural language words are vague and then goes on to explain the connection to the ultimate computational limits on machines. There is also a fascinating discussion of how animals accommodate greater behavioral complexity. This book is a must-read for researchers interested in taking a high-level, non-mechanistic approach to answering age-old fundamental questions in the brain sciences.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9781402011764
ISBN-10: 1402011768
Publication Date: 3/1/2003
Pages: 341
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Springer
Book Type: Hardcover
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