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Author:   Richard L. Gregory
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9781138699748

ISBN 10:   1138699748
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   12 March 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Illustrations. Pre-script. Part 1: Amusing 1. Laughing Matter 2. Toy Mates 3. Matches to Murder 4. When Worlds Collide 5. Swatting Truth 6. Ivory Towers of Babel: Illuminated by Eclipses of the Sun 7. Living with Robots Part 2: Musing 8. Magical Mechanisms of Mind 9. Is Consciousness Sensational Inference? 10. Conjuring 11. The Oddest Perceptions: Illusions 12. Reflecting on Mirrors 13. With Two Pins and a Length of String: The Odd Perceptions of Johannes Kepler 14. French without Fears: Denis Diderot and Julian Offray de la Mettrie 15. Samuel Butler: Nowhere in a Mirror 16. On First Reading a Book by Einstein 17. Kenneth Craik’s The Nature of Explanation: Forty Years On 18. The Genius of Alan Turing 19. Premature Reductions and Mythical Productions: Gains and Losses of Explanation 20. Is ESP Crystal Balls? 21. This Estranged Intelligence Part 3: Using 22. Inventing 23. Half-Baked Designs 24. The Fourth Dimension of 3-D 25. See Naples and Live: The Scanning Eye of Copilia 26. Bacon’s Last Egg: Exploratory Science Hands-On 27. Spelling Spells 28. Whatever Happened to Information Theory? 29. Designing Designers 30. Journey to Unconsciousness with Ketamine 31. Engineering Mind. Post-script. Index

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