Computers And The Human Mind Author:Donald G. Fink Computers have been programmed to perform an astonishing assortment of tasks. With its superhuman speed, accuracy, endurance, and memory, the computer carries out functions that seem to imitate many forms of human thought. Will it ever learn to think in the human sense? — For the general reader and the student, a prominent electronics engineer de... more »scribes in this book how computers work, what kinds of language and logic they employ, how different machines "learn" to answer questions, prove theorems, and become expert at checkers. The author shows the similarities that do and do not exists between the computer and the himan brain, and concludes with a fascinating "long look" at the probabilities of whether tomorrow's computer can become a truly creative force.« less