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Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind

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Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind - Devlin, Keith, Professor
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In a narrative that travels from ancient times to today, Keith Devlin shows how the concept of the mind as a logic machine developed and came to be so widely accepted. He also shows how efforts to use logic to create "thinking machines" have failed miserably and why those failures demonstrate that no machine would ever think the way the human mind does..

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Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind 1998, Wiley

ISBN-13: 9780471251866

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Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind 1997, Wiley, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780471142164

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