The thermodynamic cost of fast thought

Minds and Machines

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 473-487

  De Castro, Alexandre ^a  

^a EMBRAPA INFORMÁTICA AGROPECUÁRIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ausubel's learning theory; Cognitive structure; Computationalism; Landauer limit; Maxwell's demon; Shannon Hartley model

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE STRUCTURES; COMPUTATIONALISM; LANDAUER; LEARNING THEORY; MAXWELL'S DEMON;

DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION THEORY;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84887820895     PISSN: 09246495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11023-013-9302-x     Document Type: Article

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