Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual RealityGeraciRobert M.. Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. + x pp.$27.95 (USD). Hardback. ISBN: 9780195393026

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-268
Author(s):  
Michael Graziano
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
New York ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Oxford University Press

Ian Glynn, An anatomy of thought: The origin and machinery of the mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. vi, 456. Hb $35.

2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-616
Author(s):  
Ronald Gray
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
New York ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Brain ◽  
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In this highly ambitious book, Glynn attempts to provide a description of both how the brain works and how it has developed. Taking an interdisciplinary approach (he is a physiologist by training), he relies on insights from a wide number of disciplines, including psychology, neurology, anthropology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, psychiatry, physiology, and even philosophy. He is interested in providing answers to some perennial and interconnected questions that relate to the mind: “What kind of thing is mind? What is the relation between our minds and our bodies and, more specifically, what is the relation between what goes on in our minds, and what goes on in our brains? How did brains and minds originate? Can our brains be regarded as nothing more than exceedingly complicated machines? Can minds exist without brains” (p. 4). Although his arguments are rather technical, the book is intended for a nonscientist audience.

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Uğur Ümit Üngör, The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 352 pp. (ISBN: 9780199603602).Mohammed M. A. Ahmed, Iraqi Kurds and Nation-Building. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 294 pp., (ISBN: 978-1-137-03407-6), (paper). Ofra Bengio, The Kurds of Iraq: Building a State within a State. Boulder, CO and London, UK: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012, xiv + 346 pp., (ISBN 978-1-58826-836-5), (hardcover). Cengiz Gunes, The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey, from Protest to Resistance, London: Routledge, 2012, 256 pp., (ISBN: 978-0-415—68047-9). Aygen, Gülşat, Kurmanjî Kurdish. Languages of the World/Materials 468, München: Lincom Europa, 2007, 92 pp., (ISBN: 9783895860706), (paper).Barzoo Eliassi, Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden: Quest for Belonging among Middle Eastern Youth, Oxford: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 234 pp. (ISBN: 9781137282071).

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