Overview
- Presents a comprehensive neo-structuralist theory of intelligence as embedded in nature and culture
- Uncovers general mathematical structures of relations underlying natural intelligence
- Illustrates structures of intelligence in various fields from neuroscience to natural language
Part of the book series: Mathematics in Mind (MATHMIN)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- category theory
- neural networks and groupoids
- Piaget's tour de force
- artificial neural networks
- geometry of mind
- models of cognitive processes
- neural networks
- Piaget's tour de force
- relational epistomology
- natural intelligence
- structuralist modeling
- madman and the dentist
- neo-structuralist theory of intelligence
About this book
The book is organized into three parts: the first introduces the general reason for studying general structures underlying the human mind; the second part introduces category theory as a modeling language and use it for exposing the deep and fascinating structures underlying human cognition; and the third applies the general principles and ideas of the first two parts to reaching a better understanding of challenging aspects of the human mind such as our understanding of thenumber system, the metaphorical nature of our thinking and the logic of our unconscious dynamics.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Yair Neuman is a Professor at The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience at Ben-Gurion University. He holds a BA in Psychology (Major) and Philosophy (Minor) and a PhD in Cognition (Hebrew University, 1999), and his expertise is in studying complex cognitive, social, and symbolic systems from a unique interdisciplinary approach. Professor Neuman has published numerous papers and five academic books and has been a visiting scholar or professor at MIT, the University of Toronto, the University of Oxford, and the Weizmann Institute of Science. Beyond his purely academic work, he has developed state-of-the-art algorithms for social and cognitive computing, such as those he developed for the IARPA metaphor project (ADAMA group).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mathematical Structures of Natural Intelligence
Authors: Yair Neuman
Series Title: Mathematics in Mind
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68246-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68245-7Published: 19 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88570-4Published: 09 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-68246-4Published: 01 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2522-5405
Series E-ISSN: 2522-5413
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 173
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Category Theory, Homological Algebra, Mathematical Models of Cognitive Processes and Neural Networks, Algebraic Topology