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The Brilliance of Stephen Bryen
This book is a powerful and thoroughly readable study of something.What, exactly, I'm not sure.But the analysis is pentrating. ... Read more

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The book provides a valuable text for undergraduate and graduate courses on the historical and theoretical issues of Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Neuroscience, and the Philosophy of Mind. The book should also be of interest for researchers in these fields, who will find in it analyses of certain crucial issues in both the earlier and more recent history of their disciplines, as well as interesting overall insights into the current debate on the nature of mind.

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"...a book that will help those studying social sciences to realize the mechanical roots of the ongoing debate about cognition, but at the same time will help scholars of AI to put their discourse on intelligence in a historical and social perspective."

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Biological cybernetics includes experimental, theoretical and application-oriented aspects of information processing in organisms, including sensory, motor, cognitive, and ecological phenomena. The topics covered include: experimental studies of biological systems including quantitative modelling; computational, technical, or theoretical studies with relevance for understanding biological information processing; and artificial implementation of biological information processing and self-organising principles. This book presents important research from around the world in this field. ... Read more

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His family destroyed and his dreams crushed by the corporation that controls his Brazilian home through technology and drugs, Paulo seeks revenge, aided by Zaide, a woman with a computer implant in her brain that provides access to government data. ... Read more

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Fascinating detour from 'classical' cyberpunk
Set in a cyberpunk Brazil, which is described pretty convincingly, the story has that gritty edge that makes a good cyberpunk book.

A great odessy into the future of developing countries
Being a hard core SF fan and having a MA in latin american studies, this book was great.It not only has great technology but it is approached from a latin point of view.If you can get it, do. ... Read more

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An oldie but a goodie...
This book is definately an 'oldie'... but it is, without doubt, a 'goodie'. Despite being a little outdated in some areas, Sales Cybernetics still offers some of the most powerful mental strategies for success, in selling or in life.

Further to this, the book covers a wide range of sales issues; job slection, sales management, organising your time, motivation... as well as sales skills such as prospecting, presenting and closing - all based on principles of psycho-cybernetics.

On the whole, the book was an enjoyable journey. ... Read more

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This new book focuses on recent research progress in biological cybernetics which includes experimental, theoretical and application-oriented aspects of information processing in organisms, including sensory, motor, cognitive, and ecological phenomena. Topics covered include: experimental studies of biological systems including quantitative modelling; computational, technical, or theoretical studies with relevance for understanding biological information processing; and artificial implementation of biological information processing and self-organizing principles. ... Read more

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Maia is the story of an idea, and its development into a working hypothesis, that provides a cybernetic interpretation of how growth is controlled. Growth at the lowest level is controlled by regulating the rate of growth. Access to the output of control mechanisms is provided by perturbing the growing organism, and then filtering out the consequences to growth rate. The output of the growth control mechanism is then accessible for interpretation and modeling. Perturbation experiments have been used to provide interpretations of hormesis, the neutralization of inhibitory load and acquired tolerance to toxic inhibition, and catch-up growth. The account begins with an introduction to cybernetics covering the regulation of growth and population increase in animals and man and describes this new approach to access the control of growth processes. This book is suitable for postgraduate students of biological cybernetics and researchers of biological growth, endocrinology, population ecology and toxicology. ... Read more