What Makes Us Smart : : The Computational Logic of Human Cognition /

What Makes Us Smart : : The Computational Logic of Human Cognition / / Samuel Gershman.

How a computational framework can account for the successes and failures of human cognitionAt the heart of human intelligence rests a fundamental puzzle: How are we are incredibly smart and stupid at the same time? No existing machine can match the power and flexibility of human perception, language...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Gershman, Samuel,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 46 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1 Introduction: ARE WE SMART?
  • 2 Rational illusions
  • 3 Structure and origins of inductive bias
  • 4 Learning from others
  • 5 Good questions
  • 6 How to never be wrong
  • 7 Seeing patterns
  • 8 Are we consistent?
  • 9 Celestial teapots and flying spaghetti monsters
  • 10 The frugal brain
  • 11 Language design
  • 12 The uses of randomness
  • 13 Conclusion WHAT MAKES US SMART
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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