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Also free - "What must a brain do to be conscious"
A paper submitted to the Jol of Artificial General Intelligence (May 2011)

Books by Hugh Noble
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Dialogue of the Deaf, by Hugh Noble, A novel Sword Dance, by Hugh Noble, A thriller The Cautious Conspirator, by Hugh Noble, A political thriller Mountain Craft and Gear for Senior Citizens, by Hugh Noble, A manual of crafty dodges for senile mountaineers Reasoning Beyond Reason, by Hugh Noble. Science, Religion and Human Consciousness Operational Consciousness, by Hugh Noble. Consciousness is an activity performed by the brain Natural Language Processing, by Hugh Noble. Processing and understanding natural English by computer - techniques and problems


THE TARTAN HEN BOOKLIST

THE NON-FICTION LIST

1 Reasoning Beyond Reason (£2)

Why would a well qualified scientist offer us arguments in defence of his religious belief which fall far short of the standards of objectivity which he would undoubtedly observe in his professional life. To answer that question, this book offers a critique of four books by qualified scientists - Francis Collins, Owen Gingerich, Paul Davies and Alister McGrath. It examines their arguments issue by issue and point by point and shows that they not only depart from the normal criteria of objective truth, but they also disagree with one another. The author of this book then offers a counter argument in which he touches on several difficult philosophical topics - Ockham's Razor (which Collins and Gingerich got woefully wrong), quantum mechanics (for which Davies offer an unnecessarily exotic interpretation) and probability (which all four completely misunderstand). In addition Noble offer his own hypothesis on consciousness - a condensed version of the thesis he offered in his other book OPERATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS. (217 pages)

ISBN: 978-095-350-89-1-4     [MORE INFORMATION]

2 Operational Consciousness (£2)

Consciousness is not a state of mind. It is an information processing procedure. It is not an optional extra. It is not possible for any system, biological or artificial, to exhibit a high level of intelligence, without being conscious. In this monograph, the author offers a congnitive model of consciousness. (164 pages)

ISBN: 978-095-350-89-3-8     [MORE INFORMATION]

3 Natural Language Processing (£2)

This book was first published in 1988 by Blackwell Scientific Publications Ltd with the ISBN number:O-632-01738-4 While much of the material in parts 1 and 2 is now somewhat obsolete, the stuff in part 3 has become relevant with the recent publication of theories concerning brain function and concept formation. These theories bear a striking similarity to the ideas I had then and have since developed further. It is my intention to publish a new book which brings this all up to date but NOTE WELL - this 1988 book was the start of it. There is nothing particularly Scottish in this book, unless you count the fact that the ideas on causality are based on the philosophy of David Hume. (240 pages)

ISBN: 978-095-350-89-4-5     [MORE INFORMATION]

HUMOUR

4 MOUNTAIN CRAFT AND GEAR FOR SENIOR CITIZENS (£2)

A cornucopia of equipment and advice for those of a certain age. Learn how to construct a belay with a zimmer, cross a bog in carpet slippers and much much more. (46 pages/29 diagrams)

ISBN: 978-095-350-89-9-0     [MORE INFORMATIO]


THE FICTION LIST

5 Sword Dance

What if you discovered that you are the sole heir to a crofting tenancy in a remote Highland community? What an idyllic way to escape the rate race! But what if the estate belongs to a corrupt minister in a government which is holding on to power by its crooked eyelashes, a man who deals with his opponents in ruthless fashion? And what if a tragic helicopter crash just happens to drop a case full of classified documents in to the lap of an ordinary citizen like yourself? What then? Angus the 5th, a computer-hack drop-out, finds out.

ISBN: 978-0-9569223-0-4     [MORE INFORMATION]

6 The Saga Tree (available soon)
Allan Fraser, crack mountaineer and a recently qualified PhD in an esoteric branch of computer science, is delighted to be offered a post with The Marble Corporation, a global computer company, with a plant in Scotland and headquarters in South America. Soon after joining the company, however, Fraser is approached by a local CID man (whose nephew Fraser had once rescued from dangerous incident on the mountains). He is asked (informally) to help a police investigation into an unexplained death at the Scottish plant of the Marble Corporation. And so begins a sequence of events which leads Fraser to the South American headquarters and to a drammatic denoument on a rock pillar in the Chilean Andes.

7 The Cautious Conspirator

George Cranston is a respected professor of statistics and is known to his students as "Cautious Cranston". Three events upset his quiet life-style. involvement in a traumatic rail crash, the second is the death of his son, a captain in the SAS who has been active in Samilistan, an Eastern country north of Pakistan, and the third is the official invitation he receives to join a prestigious government enquiry into the safety of GM crops. These events do not, at first, seem to be related. But George is a meticulous researcher, and George asks questions. To get answers he travels to New Zealand, to the Central American Republic of Caradomas, to the High Tatra of Slovakia and finally back to England where he commits treason to expose a wayward politician and a dangerous conspiracy.

ISBN: 978-0-9569223-1-1     [MORE INFORMATION]

8 A Dialogue of the Deaf

Old Alastair Jamieson is a cantankerous atheist with a mysterious and unexpectedly adventurous past. He lives in a remore and beautiful corner of the Scottish Highlands in a house called Camasbeag. And he lives alone with eagles, red squirrels, red deer and a family of otters for company. Alastair likes it that way. But one day he falls and breaks his wrist. That brings into his house and his life, a gathering together of his entire estranged family. The first to come on a duty visit, is his daughter Claire who has problems of her own. She then calls on her elder brother Henry who is an ordained Anglican priest and the director of a mission in Kenya. He is visiting the UK on ecumenical business and is persuaded by Claire to travel north to Scotland, taking with him an acolyte called Joshua. But then Henry breaks a leg and is compelled to stay on at Camasbeag. Claire, dumped by her employer, and then by her partner, returns to Camasbeag followed by her daughter Julie. Julie is pregnant with twins and she needs her mother's help. Claire's son James has become involved in dodgy financial matters in London and he too escapes to Camasbeag, bringing with him his partner and her 8 year old daughter. It makes for a lively household, particularly when Alastair and Henry engage in some vociferous theological arguments, a process not made easier by the fact that both men are deaf (and won't admit it). The others try to keep the two men apart. And then Claire begins to unravel her father's mysterious past ...

ISBN: 978-0-9569223-2-8     [MORE INFORMATION]
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