Posted by
Jochen Fromm-3 on
Jul 21, 2006; 9:27pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/computer-models-of-the-mind-tp522183p522196.html
Interesting book ! Much more interesting than the bad
complexity book from Remo Badii and Antonio Politi that
gets dusty somehwere on my bookshelf. Even if it is
from Cambridge University Press, the Badii and Politi
book is one of those disappointing books that you put down
again soon everytime you pick it up, because you neve
get any interesting inspiration from the mathematical
quagmire. Quite different from those classic, timeless
books where you discover everytime something new.
The book from Kandel is probably much more rewarding.
The amazon.com link for it can be found here
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393058638Kandel has written this great neuroscience book with
James Schwartz and Thomas Jessel, the Kandel Schwartz
and Jessell tome, perhaps a kind of neuroscience bible
(by the way did you that Obidos is a jungle town
on the real-world Amazon near Manaus, located at the
bottleneck - the narrowest and swiftest part - of the
Amazon river, and also a historic town in Portugal ?
I don't know the exact meaning at Amazon.com, probably it
was the name of their custom-built e-commerce system
that powered the original Amazon.com website - a large
CGI program for the e-commerce system which handled different
inventory queries, the home page, book detail pages, search,
shopping cart, and the order pipeline. All of these
pieces of business functionality are now wrapped and
executed by different services, today "obidos" seems to be
only a custom layer on top of the web servers that parses
requests and builds web pages)
-J.
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From: Pamela McCorduck
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 9:50 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] real tinking
I'm just now reading Eric Kandel's graceful memoir,
"In Search of Memory." Kandel, a Nobel laureate and
biologist, has devoted his life to understanding human
memory, which he believes is one of the great puzzles
whose solution would lead directly to understanding human
thought.