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A Theory of Immediate Awareness

Self-Organization and Adaptation in Natural Intelligence

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  1. Myrna Estep

    1. Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. The Problem of Immediate Awareness

    • Myrna Estep
    Pages 1-32

  3. The Primitive Relations of Knowledge by Acquaintance

    • Myrna Estep
    Pages 33-74

  4. Arguments Against Immediate Awareness: The Case of Naturalism

    • Myrna Estep
    Pages 75-108

  5. What does the Evidence Show?

    • Myrna Estep
    Pages 109-158

  6. Boundary Set S: At the Core of Multiple Intelligences

    • Myrna Estep
    Pages 159-216

  7. Can Neural Networks Simulate Boundary Set S?

    • Myrna Estep
    Pages 217-254

  8. Computability of Boundary Set S

    • Myrna Estep
    Pages 255-277

  9. Summary and Conclusions

    • Myrna Estep
    Pages 279-289

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 291-316
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About this book

This book is multi- and interdisciplinary in both scope and content. It draws upon philosophy, the neurosciences, psychology, computer science, and engineering in efforts to resolve fundamental issues about the nature of immediate awareness. Approximately the first half of the book is addressed to historical approaches to the question whether or not there is such a thing as immediate awareness, and if so, what it might be. This involves reviewing arguments that one way or another have been offered as answers to the question or ways of avoiding it. It also includes detailed discussions of some complex questions about the part immediate awareness plays in our over-all natural intelligence. The second half of the book addresses intricate and complex issues involved in the computability of immediate awareness as it is found in simple, ordinary things human beings know how to do, as weIl as in some highly extraordinary things some know how to do. Over the past 2,500 years, human culture has discovered, created, and built very powerful tools for recognizing, classifying, and utilizing patterns found in the natural world. The most powerful of those tools is mathematics, the language of nature. The natural phenomenon of human knowing, of natural intelligence generally, is a very richly textured set of patterns that are highly complex, dynamic, self-organizing, and adaptive.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

    Myrna Estep

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Theory of Immediate Awareness

  • Book Subtitle: Self-Organization and Adaptation in Natural Intelligence

  • Authors: Myrna Estep

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0183-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1186-3Published: 31 May 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6251-2Published: 30 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-0183-9Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 316

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Epistemology, Neurosciences, Artificial Intelligence, Systems Theory, Control

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