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While it may appear that generative AI has mastered the mystery of the human mind and released its full power, The Emergence of Mind: Where Technology Ends and We Begin demonstrates the profound and fundamental limitations of the technology and its use as a model of human thinking. In response, the book offers an emergent model of the human mind rooted in our experiences as living, sentient, social and conscious beings. The text explores the nature of meaning in human cognition and the critical importance of the experience of ideas. In so doing, it offers insights into the cultivation of specific generative capacities of the human mind.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Writing the Human Narrative.- Chapter 2. Where We Begin.- Chapter 3. The Science of Mindlessness.- Chapter 4. Where Computation Ends.- Chapter 5. Relational Science.- Chapter 6. Life and Mind.- Chapter 7. Thinking as a Creative Act.- Chapter 8. Emerging Minds./
About the author
Jeffrey Kane, is a professor of Philosophy and Education at Long Island University. After serving as the Academic Vice-President of the University, Dr. Kane returned to faculty to teach and to write about the experiential foundations of human thinking. Among his publications are Beyond Empiricism: Michael Polanyi Reconsidered and a book of poetry, life as a novice. He lives in East Hills NY with his wife Janet.
Summary
While it may appear that generative AI has mastered the mystery of the human mind and released its full power, The Emergence of Mind: Where Technology Ends and We Begin demonstrates the profound and fundamental limitations of the technology and its use as a model of human thinking. In response, the book offers an emergent model of the human mind rooted in our experiences as living, sentient, social and conscious beings. The text explores the nature of meaning in human cognition and the critical importance of the experience of ideas. In so doing, it offers insights into the cultivation of specific generative capacities of the human mind.
