 | Alan A. Block - 1995 - 270 oldal
...based only on partial knowledge; recall, the brain is in the business of producing futures: The brain's task is to guide the body it controls through a world...anticipations in order to stay one step ahead of disaster. (Dennett, 1991, 144) Learning — reading — is the activity that facilitates the movement out of... | |
 | Ned F. Kock - 1999 - 172 oldal
...future. It is to causal knowledge that Dennett (1991, p. 144) refers, when he claims that: The brain's task is to guide the body it controls through a world...it must gather information from that world and use swiftly to "produce future" — to extract anticipations in order to stay one step ahead of disaster... | |
 | Douglas Robinson - 2001 - 234 oldal
...everything comes out all right.) But even nonballistic acts must be formulated very rapidly: The brain's task is to guide the body it controls through a world...information from that world and use it swiftly to "produce future"—to extract anticipations in order to stay one step ahead of disaster.... So the brain must... | |
 | Vyvyan Evans - 2003 - 308 oldal
...Dennett 1991; Jackendoff eg 1983, 1992: Ch. 8; Rock 1984). As Dennett ( 1991 ) observes, "The brain's task is to guide the body it controls through a world...anticipations in order to stay one step ahead of disaster" (Ibid.: 144). The difficulties are compounded by the fact that the processes which the brain employs... | |
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... produce future" — to extract anticipations in order to stay one step ahead of disaster [original emphasis]. Knowledge drives the flow of myriad decisions that have to be made even in the simplest organizational processes. Steel plants, for example,... 