By seeking, you will discover... 2006-05-05T05:11:31Z Paul Kulchenko http://notebook.kulchenko.com/references/books/ Blooki/0.4808 <table><tr><td><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156010755.01._scthumbzzz_.jpg" alt="" style="padding-right:1em" /></td><td><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0156010755/ref=nosim/soaplite-20">The Feeling of What Happens</a><br /> by Antonio Damasio</td></tr></table> http://notebook.kulchenko.com/references/books/the-feeling-of-what-happens 2006-05-05T05:11:31Z 2006-05-05T05:11:31Z <table><tr><td><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0465045669.01._scthumbzzz_.jpg" alt="" style="padding-right:1em" /></td><td><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465045669/ref=nosim/soaplite-20">Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern </a><br /> by Douglas R. Hofstadter</td></tr></table> http://notebook.kulchenko.com/references/books/metamagical-themas 2006-04-29T05:06:31Z 2006-04-29T05:06:31Z <table><tr><td><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0974707708.01._scthumbzzz_.jpg" alt="" style="padding-right:1em" /></td><td><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0974707708/ref=nosim/soaplite-20">The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach</a><br /> by Christof Koch</td></tr></table> http://notebook.kulchenko.com/references/books/the-quest-for-consciousness 2006-04-22T04:35:35Z 2006-04-22T04:35:35Z <table><tr><td><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0465024750.01._scthumbzzz_.jpg" alt="" style="padding-right:1em" /></td><td><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465024750/ref=nosim/soaplite-20">Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought</a><br /> by Douglas R. Hofstadter</td></tr></table> http://notebook.kulchenko.com/references/books/fluid-concepts-and-creative-analogies 2006-04-21T04:21:45Z 2006-04-21T04:21:45Z <table><tr><td><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0716704773.01._scthumbzzz_.jpg" alt="" style="padding-right:1em" /></td><td><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0716704773/ref=nosim/soaplite-20">Cognition and Reality: Principles and Implications of Cognitive Psychology</a><br /> by Ulric Neisser</td></tr></table> http://notebook.kulchenko.com/references/books/cognition-and-reality 2006-03-29T06:29:07Z 2006-03-29T06:29:07Z <p><a href="http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/POS/">The Phenomenon of Science: a Cybernetic Approach to Human Evolution</a><br /> by Valentin F. Turchin</p> http://notebook.kulchenko.com/references/books/the-phenomenon-of-science 2006-02-28T07:28:11Z 2006-02-28T07:28:11Z <table><tr><td><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471978361.01._scthumbzzz_.jpg" alt="" style="padding-right:1em" /></td><td><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471978361/ref=nosim/soaplite-20">Handbook of Cognition and Emotion</a><br /> by Tim Dalgleish, Mick Power</td></tr></table> <p><a href="http://www.paulekman.com/pdfs/basic_emotions.pdf">Chapter 3: Basic Emotions</a> by <a href="http://www.paulekman.com/">Paul Ekman</a></p> http://notebook.kulchenko.com/references/books/handbook-of-cognition-and-emotion 2006-02-27T06:47:08Z 2006-02-27T06:47:08Z <table><tr><td><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0198524323.01._scthumbzzz_.jpg" alt="" style="padding-right:1em" /></td><td><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198524323/ref=nosim/soaplite-20">Neural Networks and Brain Function</a> <br /> by Edmund T. Rolls, Alessandro Treves</td></tr></table> http://notebook.kulchenko.com/references/books/neural-networks-and-brain-function 2006-02-26T21:47:28Z 2006-02-26T21:47:28Z <table><tr><td><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375420797.01._scthumbzzz_.jpg" alt="" style="padding-right:1em" /></td><td><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375420797/ref=nosim/soaplite-20">Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us</a><br /> by <a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/">Rodney Brooks</a></td></tr></table> http://notebook.kulchenko.com/references/books/flesh-and-machines 2006-02-26T21:45:10Z 2006-02-26T21:45:10Z <table><tr><td><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1891786075.01._scthumbzzz_.jpg" alt="" style="padding-right:1em" /></td><td><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1891786075/ref=nosim/soaplite-20">The Biology of Mind - Origins and Structures of Mind, Brain, and Consciousness</a> (<a href="http://dericbownds.net/bom99/TOC.html">copy</a>)<br /> by <a href="http://dericbownds.net/">Deric Bownds</a></td></tr></table> http://notebook.kulchenko.com/references/books/biology-of-mind 2006-02-10T07:46:16Z 2006-02-10T07:46:16Z <table><tr><td><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0521890799.01._scthumbzzz_.jpg" alt="" style="padding-right:1em" /></td><td><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521890799/ref=nosim/soaplite-20">Spiking Neuron Models</a> (<a href="http://diwww.epfl.ch/~gerstner/SPNM/SPNM.html">copy</a>)<br /> by Wulfram Gerstner, Werner M. Kistler</td></tr></table> http://notebook.kulchenko.com/references/books/spiking-neuron-models 2006-02-03T05:11:41Z 2006-02-03T05:11:41Z <table><tr><td><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0465073514.01._scthumbzzz_.jpg" alt="" style="padding-right:1em" /></td><td><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465073514/ref=nosim/soaplite-20">Kinds of Minds. Toward an understanding of consciousness</a><br /> by Daniel C. Dennett</td></tr></table> <blockquote><p>Our brains are modestly larger than the brains of our nearest relatives (although not larger than the brains of some dolphins and whales), but this is almost certainly <em>not the source of our greater intelligence</em>. The primary source, I want to suggest, if our habit of <em>off-loading</em> as much as possible of our cognitive tasks into the environment itself -- extruding our minds (that is, our mental projects and activities) into the surrounding world, where a host of peripheral devices we construct can store, process, and re-represent our meanings, streamlining, enhancing, and protecting processes of transformation that <em>are</em> our thinking. The widespread practice of off-loading releases us from the limitations of our animal brains (pp.134-5)</p></blockquote> http://notebook.kulchenko.com/references/books/kinds-of-minds 2006-01-22T22:32:51Z 2006-01-22T22:32:51Z <p><a href="http://www.nsi.edu/users/izhikevich/publications/dsn.pdf">Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience: The Geometry of Excitability and Bursting</a><br /> by Eugene M. Izhikevich</p> http://notebook.kulchenko.com/references/books/dynamical-systems-in-neuroscience 2005-12-31T06:16:32Z 2005-12-31T06:16:32Z <table><tr><td><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0521794625.01._scthumbzzz_.jpg" alt="" style="padding-right:1em" /></td><td><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521794625/ref=nosim/soaplite-20">Enchanted Looms: Conscious Networks in Brains and Computers</a><br /> by Rodney Cotterill</td></tr></table> <blockquote><p>...significance of <em>any</em> sensory input only emerges as a consequence of the animal's own motor explorations... (p.414)</p> <p>We enjoy tremendous advantage of being able to <em>veto an action</em> that has already been given the system's permission to proceed, even though that veto is excercised <em>deterministically and unconsciously</em>. (p.428)</p></blockquote> http://notebook.kulchenko.com/references/books/enchanted-looms 2005-12-08T22:41:28Z 2005-12-08T22:41:28Z <table><tr><td><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0465026567.01._scthumbzzz_.jpg" alt="" style="padding-right:1em" /></td><td><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465026567/ref=nosim/soaplite-20">Godel, Escher, Bach: an Ethernal Golden Braid</a><br /> by Douglas R. Hofstadter</td></tr></table> http://notebook.kulchenko.com/references/books/godel-escher-bach 2005-12-08T22:14:23Z 2005-12-08T22:14:23Z