Simulating the Mind: A Technical Neuropsychoanalytical Approach

by Dietmar Dietrich (Editor), Georg Fodor (Editor), Gerhard Zucker (Editor), Dietmar Bruckner (Editor)

Overview

Can psychoanalysis offer a new computer model? Can computer designers help psychoanalysts to understand their theory better? In contemporary publications human psyche is often related to neural networks. Why? The wiring in computers can also be related to application software. But does this really make sense?

Artificial Intelligence has tried to implement functions of human psyche. The reached achievements are remarkable; however, the goal to get a functional model of the mental apparatus was not reached. Was the selected direction incorrect? The editors are convinced: yes, and they try to give answers here. If one accepts that the brain is an information processing system, then one also has to accept that computer theories can be applied to the brain’s functions, the human mental apparatus.

The contributors of this book - Solms, Panksepp, Sloman and many others who are all experts in computer design, psychoanalysis and neurology are united in one goal: finding synergy in their interdisciplinary fields.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783211094501
Publisher:	Springer Vienna
Publication date:	11/17/2008
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	436
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Theory.- The Vision.- Basics.- Model.- Implementation and Application.- Proceedings of Emulating the Mind (ENF 2007).- Session 1.- Session 2.- Session 3.- Session 4.- Discussion Sessions.- Responses to the ENF 2007.- Introductory Words.- Collected Papers.