Can we ever know what non-human minds are really like? How different are human minds from the minds of animals or robots? McFarland offers an accessible exploration of these and many other intriguing questions, questions that illuminate our understanding the human mind and its limits in knowing and imagining other minds. In exploring these issues, McFarland looks not only at philosophy, but also at new evidence from the sciences of animal behavior, robotics, and artificial intelligence to draw many interesting--and often ...
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Can we ever know what non-human minds are really like? How different are human minds from the minds of animals or robots? McFarland offers an accessible exploration of these and many other intriguing questions, questions that illuminate our understanding the human mind and its limits in knowing and imagining other minds. In exploring these issues, McFarland looks not only at philosophy, but also at new evidence from the sciences of animal behavior, robotics, and artificial intelligence to draw many interesting--and often quite surprising--conclusions.
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