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  • Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music

    by Steven Jan ...
    Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music by Steven Jan is a comprehensive account of the relationships between evolutionary theory and music. Examining the ‘evolutionary algorithm’ that drives biological and musical-cultural evolution, the book provides a distinctive commentary on how musicality and music can shed light on our understanding of Darwin’s famous theory, and vice-versa.Comprised of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Memetics of Music

    A Neo-Darwinian View of Musical Structure and Culture

    by Steven Jan ...
    Richard Dawkins's formulation of the meme concept in his 1976 classic The Selfish Gene has inspired three decades of work in what many see as the burgeoning science of memetics. Its underpinning theory proposes that human culture is composed of a multitude of particulate units, memes, which are analogous to the genes of biological transmission. These cultural replicators are transmitted by ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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  • Matter and Consciousness, third edition

    An updated edition of an authoritative text showing the relevance for philosophy of mind of theoretical and experimental results in the natural sciences.In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland presents a concise and contemporary overview of the philosophical issues surrounding the mind and explains the main theories and philosophical positions that have been proposed to solve them. Making the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence

    Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a cross-disciplinary approach to understanding, modeling, and creating intelligence of various forms. It is a critical branch of cognitive science, and its influence is increasingly being felt in other areas, including the humanities. AI applications are transforming the way we interact with each other and with our environment, and work in artificially modeling ... Read more

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  • Mind, Body, World

    Foundations of Cognitive Science

    Series series OPEL (Open Paths to Enriched Learning)
    Cognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that a number of disciplines, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting. Perhaps owing to the field’s immediate origins in cybernetics, as well as to the foundational assumption that cognition is information processing, cognitive science initially seemed more unified than psychology. However, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • In Defence of the Human Being

    Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology

    by Thomas Fuchs ...
    With the progress of artificial intelligence, the digitalization of the lifeworld, and the reduction of the mind to neuronal processes, the human being increasingly appears to be just a product of data and algorithms. That is, we conceive ourselves “in the image of our machines”, and conversely, we elevate our machines and our brains to new subjects. At the same time, demands for an enhancement of ... Read more

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  • Environments of Intelligence

    From natural information to artificial interaction

    by Hajo Greif ...
    What is the role of the environment, and of the information it provides, in cognition? More specifically, may there be a role for certain artefacts to play in this context? These are questions that motivate "4E" theories of cognition (as being embodied, embedded, extended, enactive). In his take on that family of views, Hajo Greif first defends and refines a concept of information as primarily ... Read more

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  • Art, Technology, Consciousness

    Mind@large

    by Roy Ascott ...
    Within a technological context, this volume addresses contemporary theories of consciousness, subjective experience, the creation of meaning and emotion, and relationships between cognition and location. Its focus is both on and beyond the digital culture, seeking to assimilate new ideas emanating from the physical sciences as well as embracing spiritual and artistic aspects of human experience. ... Read more

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  • Getting Darwin Wrong

    Why Evolutionary Psychology Won't Work

    Brendan Wallace, with a background in psychology, demonstrates that the key claims of Evolutionary Psychology (EP), popularised by Steven Pinker and others, are based on the 'brain is a digital computer' argument. He then argues that as we now know this model of the brain will not work, therefore EP won't work either, since it is based on a fallacious view of the mind/brain.The book, which is ... Read more

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  • Situated Aesthetics

    Art Beyond the Skin

    This book focuses on externalist approaches to art. It is the first fruit of a workshop held in Milan in September 2009, where leading scholars in the emerging field of psychology of art compared their different approaches using a neutral language and discussing freely their goals.The event threw up common grounds for future research activities. First, there is a considerable interest in using ... Read more

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  • Contagious Architecture

    Computation, Aesthetics, and Space

    Series series Technologies of Lived Abstraction
    A proposal that algorithms are not simply instructions to be performed but thinking entities that construct digital spatio-temporalities.In Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi offers a philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design. Her thesis is that algorithmic computation is not simply an abstract mathematical tool but constitutes a mode of ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Human and Machine Thinking

    Series series Distinguished Lecture Series
    This book aims to reach an understanding of how the mind carries out three sorts of thinking -- deduction, induction, and creation -- to consider what goes right and what goes wrong, and to explore computational models of these sorts of thinking. Written for students of the mind -- psychologists, computer scientists, philosophers, linguists, and other cognitive scientists -- it also provides ... Read more

    $84.99 USD