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After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence

After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence

After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence
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After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence Softcover - 1996

by Bailey, James

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In the tradition of GODEL, ESCHER, BACH comes a profound and original book that looks at computers and shows the potential of these astounding machines to reshape what we think about and even how we think. Ranging widely over the history of ideas from Galileo to Darwin and beyond, AFTER THOUGHT will astonish and fascinate all of us who much come to terms with today's unstoppable computer revolution.

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New York: Basic Books. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1996. First Thus. Softcover. 0465007821 . A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall .
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  • Title After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence
  • Author Bailey, James
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Condition Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York
  • Publication date 1996
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5566
  • ISBN 9780465007820 / 0465007821
  • Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.34 x 0.72 in (20.37 x 13.56 x 1.83 cm)
  • Reading level 1360
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96001050
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.48
  • Bookseller catalogues Science/Nature

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From the publisher

Through the first fifty years of the computer revolution, scientists have been trying to program electronic circuits to process information the same way humans do. Doing so has reassured us all that underlying every new computer capability, no matter how miraculously fast or complex, are human thought processes and logic. But cutting-edge computer scientists are coming to see that electronic circuits really are alien, that the difference between the human mind and computer capability is not merely one of degree (how fast), but of kind(how). The author suggests that computers "think" best when their "thoughts" are allowed to emerge from the interplay of millions of tiny operations all interacting with each other in parallel. Why then, if computers bring to the table such very different strengths and weaknesses, are we still trying to program them to think like humans? A work that ranges widely over the history of ideas from Galileo to Newton to Darwin yet is just as comfortable in the cutting-edge world of parallel processing that is at this very moment yielding a new form of intelligence, After Thought describes why the real computer age is just beginning.

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When Henry David Thoreau went to the woods of Concord, Massachusetts, he was seeking, among other things, to take back a set of muscle tasks that had long since been reassigned from humans to animals.

About the author

James Bailey was a senior manager at Thinking Machines Corporation, where a 64,000 processor parallel supercomputer and a wide range of evolutionary computing algorithms were developed. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.
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