By Robert Hecht-Nielsen
Confabulation concept deals the 1st whole distinctive clarification of the mechanism of cognition, i.e., pondering, a necessary info processing power of all enbrained Earth animals (bees, octopi, trout, ravens, people, et al.). focusing on the human case, this ebook deals an speculation for the neuronal implementation of cognition, and explores the maths and strategies of software of its mechanism. pondering seems to be starkly alien compared to all identified technological techniques to details processing. whereas not likely but scientifically testable, confabulation idea turns out in step with the evidence of neuroscience. past technological know-how, any entire specified rationalization of cognition should be investigated through using it technologically. a number of experiments of this nature are defined during this publication in whole aspect. the implications recommend that confabulation concept offers the common platform for construction clever machines. briefly, this publication explains how pondering works and establishes the root for construction machines that think.
Because of the theory’s implications for philosophy, schooling, drugs, anthropology and social technology, this ebook may also be of curiosity to scientists in these domains.
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