Brain, Mind and Computers

Jaki, Stanley L. 1989. Brain, mind, and computers. 3rd ed. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway.

In an age when computers are making ever greater inroads into everyday lives, well may we ask: Do computers have intelligence? Are they living? have free will? exercise moral judgment? STANLEY L. JAKI, historian and philosopher of science, deals with these and related questions in BRAIN, MIND AND COMPUTERS, a thoroughly documented rebuttal of contemporary claims a the existence of, or possibility for, man-made minds. His method includes a meticulousy documented survey of computer development, review of the relevant results of brain research, an evaluation of the accomplishments of physicalist schools in psychology, symbolic logic, and linguistics, and a thorough critique of claims about artificial intelligence.

Dr. Jaki, who is Distinguished Professor at Seton Hall University, has written widely in the area of the history of science and on the intimate connection between scientific creativity and natural theology. He served as Gifford Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and is the recipient of the Templeton Prize for 1987. For this book received the Lecomte du Nouy Prize for 1970.