The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

 

6. Connectionism and Neural Machines

  1. Artificial Neural Networks
  2. Parallel Distributed Computing
  3. Computational Models of the Brain
  4. Non-sequential Programming
  5. Energy-based Models
  6. Deep Learning
  7. Hierarchical Belief Networks
  8. Deep Belief Networks
  9. Psychological Models
  10. Neurocomputing
  11. Neurons vs Symbols
  12. The Road from Neurons to Symbols

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books)

Aleksander Igor: IMPOSSIBLE MINDS (Imperial College Press, 1996)

Anderson James & Rosenfeld Edward: NEURO-COMPUTING (MIT Press, 1988)

Anderson James: NEURO-COMPUTING 2 (MIT Press, 1990)

Anderson James: AN INTRODUCTION TO NEURAL NETWORKS (MIT Press, 1995)

Arbib Michael: THE HANDBOOK OF BRAIN THEORY AND NEURAL NETWORKS (MIT Press, 1995)

Bechtel William & Adele Abrahamsen: CONNECTIONISM AND THE MIND (MIT Press, 1991)

Churchland Patricia: NEUROPHILOSOPHY (MIT Press, 1986)

Clark Andy: MICROCOGNITION (MIT Press, 1989)

Clark, Andy: ASSOCIATIVE ENGINES (MIT Press, 1993)

Davis Steven: CONNECTIONISM (Oxford University Press, 1992)

Grenander, Ulf:  GENERAL PATTERN THEORY (Oxford Univ Press, 1993)

Grossberg Stephen: NEURAL NETWORKS AND NATURAL INTELLIGENCE (MIT Press, 1988)

Hassoun Mohamad: FUNDAMENTALS OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS (MIT Press, 1995)

Haykin Simon: NEURAL NETWORKS (Macmillan, 1994)

Hecht-Nielsen Robert: NEUROCOMPUTING (Addison-Wesley, 1989)

Hertz John, Krogh Anders & Palmer Richard: INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF NEURAL COMPUTATION (Addison-Wesley, 1990)

Hinton, Geoffrey & Sejnowski, Terrence: UNSUPERVISED LEARNING : FOUNDATIONS OF NEURAL COMPUTATION (MIT Press, 1999)

Kohonen Teuvo: SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS (Springer Verlag, 1995)

Levine Daniel: INTRODUCTION TO NEURAL AND COGNITIVE MODELING (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991)

McClelland James & Rumelhart David: PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING vol. 2 (MIT Press, 1986)

Minsky Marvin: PERCEPTRONS; AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY (MIT Press, 1969)

Pearl, Judea: PROBABILISTIC REASONING IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (1988)

Rumelhart David & McClelland James: PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING VOL. 1 (MIT Press, 1986)

Smolensky, Paul: INFORMATION PROCESSING IN DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS (MIT Press, 1986)

Uttley, Albert: INFORMATION TRANSMISSION IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM (1979)