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Superminds

People Harness Hypercomputation, and More

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  1. Selmer Bringsjord

    1. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, USA

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  2. Michael Zenzen

    1. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Cognitive Systems (COGS, volume 29)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
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  2. What is Supermentalism?

    • Selmer Bringsjord, Michael Zenzen
    Pages 1-48

  3. A Refutation of Penrose’s Gödelian Case

    • Selmer Bringsjord, Michael Zenzen
    Pages 49-84

  4. The Argument from Infinitary Reasoning

    • Selmer Bringsjord, Michael Zenzen
    Pages 85-132

  5. Supermentalism and the Fall of Church’s Thesis

    • Selmer Bringsjord, Michael Zenzen
    Pages 133-170

  6. The Zombie Attack on Computationalism

    • Selmer Bringsjord, Michael Zenzen
    Pages 171-200

  7. The Argument from Irreversibility

    • Selmer Bringsjord, Michael Zenzen
    Pages 201-236

  8. What are We? Where’d We Come From?

    • Selmer Bringsjord, Michael Zenzen
    Pages 237-277

  9. Supermentalism and the Practice of AI

    • Selmer Bringsjord, Michael Zenzen
    Pages 278-307

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 309-342
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About this book

This is the first book-length presentation and defense of a new theory of human and machine cognition, according to which human persons are superminds. Superminds are capable of processing information not only at and below the level of Turing machines (standard computers), but above that level (the "Turing Limit"), as information processing devices that have not yet been (and perhaps can never be) built, but have been mathematically specified; these devices are known as super-Turing machines or hypercomputers. Superminds, as explained herein, also have properties no machine, whether above or below the Turing Limit, can have. The present book is the third and pivotal volume in Bringsjord's supermind quartet; the first two books were What Robots Can and Can't Be (Kluwer) and AI and Literary Creativity (Lawrence Erlbaum). The final chapter of this book offers eight prescriptions for the concrete practice of AI and cognitive science in light of the fact that we are superminds.

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"This book is part of a series that aims at exploring all kinds of knowledge, information and data processing systems. It is especially interesting because it deals with the often sharply discussed question of the relation of ‘human’ and ‘Artificial Intelligence’. … This book and the whole series will cause a lot of discussions, and this will make the book very interesting. … A very interesting book that can be recommended to everybody who is interested in the relation between human mind and computer intelligence." (Christian Posthoff, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1046 (21), 2004)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, USA

    Selmer Bringsjord, Michael Zenzen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Superminds

  • Book Subtitle: People Harness Hypercomputation, and More

  • Authors: Selmer Bringsjord, Michael Zenzen

  • Series Title: Studies in Cognitive Systems

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0283-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1094-1Published: 31 March 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1095-8Published: 31 March 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0283-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-0780

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXX, 339

  • Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Artificial Intelligence, Logic

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