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Mentation: On a Wave of Computation

Mentation: On a Wave of Computation

Horwitz, Noah

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1495923045
ISBN13: 9781495923043
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 12 2014
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Mentation is ostensibly an attempt to synthesize the best current theory we have about consciousness (Hameroff and Penrose's Orch OR theory), about the mind (the computational theory of the mind-in particular as articulated by Jerry Fodor), and about the fundamental nature of the brain (Karl Pribram's holonomic theory) into a single philosophy of mind. As part of this synthesis, this text advocates that the very neural correlate of consciousness has been discovered (and notes the consequences) and that fundamentally the mind makes use of, what the author calls, wave form computation. Various aspects of the mind such as memory, dreams, the unity of consciousness, free will, etc. are reinterpreted in the light of the wave form computation that forms the basis of the mind. In doing so, competing theories of consciousness and mind such as the information-theoretic theory, higher-order theory, Ned Block's theory, Daniel Dennett's, and Jesse Prinz's amongst others are critically evaluated. A full computational approach is developed in order to analyze the cyborgs being built today, the purpose of consciousness, our relation to the divine, and other topics. Ultimately, the model of the mind as neural software is articulated as a fundamentally new discourse on the nature of the one-multiple. Table of Contents 1. Introduction: The Origin of Mentality 2. Fast Fourier Transformations: The Waveform and Mentation 3. The Computational Theory of Mind 4. Criticisms of the Computational Theory of Mind 5. The Neural Correlate of Consciousness 6. The Orch OR Theory of Consciousness 7. From Penrose to Gödel: The Incomputable 8. The Unity of Consciousness 9. The Information-Theoretic Theory of Consciousness: A Rejection 10. Why Consciousness? 11. The Self: Being Some One 12. Memory 13. The Confabulatory Mind: Computational Freud 14. A Return to the Hard Problem: The Conscious and the Unconscious 15. The Split Within 16. Not HOT: From Self-Reflection to Emotion 17. A Theory of Free Will 18. Today's Cyborgs: Input, Output, and the Mind's Blackbox 19. Conclusion: From the Resurrection to Divine Intuition

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