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Book description from the back cover:
Confabulation Theory
Confabulation theory offers the first
complete detailed explanation of the mechanism of
cognition, i.e., thinking, an essential information
processing capability of all enbrained Earth animals
(bees, octopi, trout, ravens, humans, et al.).
Concentrating on the human case, this book offers an
hypothesis for the neuronal implementation of cognition,
and explores the mathematics and methods of application
of its mechanism. Thinking turns out to be starkly alien
in comparison with all known technological approaches to
information processing. While probably not yet
scientifically testable, confabulation theory seems
consistent with the facts of neuroscience. Beyond
science, any complete detailed explanation of cognition
can be investigated by applying it technologically.
Multiple experiments of this nature are described in
this book in complete detail. The results suggest that
confabulation theory can provide the universal platform
for building intelligent machines. In short, this book
explains how thinking works and establishes the
foundation for building machines that think. With two
DVDs of courseware, this book is suitable both as a text
for professional self-study and for graduate and
advanced undergraduate courses in neuroscience,
computational intelligence, cognitive science,
linguistics and psychology, the prerequisites being
elementary mathematics and neuroscience. Because of the
theory’s implications for philosophy, education,
medicine, anthropology and social science, this book
will also be of interest to scientists in those domains.
Summary of book content:
Content
of the Book
The content of the eight
chapters and two DVDs of this book is briefly surveyed
below:
Chapter 1:
Introduction
An introductory overview
of confabulation theory: comments on some of the
theory’s possible
implications and presentation of this overview of the
book’s
contents.
Chapter 2:
Video Presentation Viewcells
The viewcells used in
the book’s DVD video presentation are presented. To
help with understanding
and retention of the material, each of these should
be referred to while it
is being presented during the video.
Chapter 3: The
Mathematics of Cognition
An introduction to the
mathematics of confabulation theory. Comments on
the relationship between
cogency maximization and Bayesian analysis. An
extensive discussion of
the status of confabulation neuroscience. Comments
on the origins of
confabulation theory.
Chapter 4:
Cogent Confabulation
Mathematical foundations
of confabulation theory are presented, including
statement and proof of
the Fundamental Theorem of Cognition and the theorem
showing that cogent
confabulation within a logical information environment
yields Aristotelian
logic. Computer experiments with a single confabulation
are presented, with all
details provided. Replication of these single
confabulation
experiments is the logical starting point for those
wanting to
gain hands-on experience
with confabulation architectures.
Chapter 5:
Confabulation Neuroscience I
A concise overview of
confabulation neuroscience. This material is
prerequisite
for Chap. 6.
Chapter 6: The
Mechanism of Thought
Computer experiments
with multiconfabulation are presented, with all details.
These sentence
continuation experiments illustrate that thinking is
exactly
like moving. Replication
of these multiconfabulation experiments is the
second logical step for
those wishing to gain hands-on experience with
confabulation
architectures.
Chapter 7:
Mechanization of Confabulation
Further details of
confabulation architecture design and implementation are
presented. Approaches
for application of confabulation architectures to
language,
vision, and hearing are
discussed in some detail.
Chapter 8:
Confabulation Neuroscience II
An expanded discussion
of confabulation neuroscience.
DVDs
The book’s two DVDs
(provided in pouches inside the front and back covers of
the book) contain the following material:
1. The Mechanism of
Thought video presentation (Part I on DVD Disk 1 and
Part II on DVD Disk 2).
2. PDF file of the Viewcells
used in The Mechanism of Thought video presentation.
This computer-readable
file is included on both Disk 1 and Disk 2.
3. PDF file of the Presentation Notes
for The Mechanism of Thought
video
presentation.
Confabulation Theory can be purchased from:
Springer.com ( http://www.springer.com/west/home?SGWID=4-102-22-173707346-0&changeHeader=true
)
or
Amazon.com (
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3540496033
)
or any bookstore
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