The Muse in the Machine: Computers and Creative Thought by David Hillel Gelernter (Hardcover, 1994)

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This is the First GB Edition (US edition published in same year by Free Press, MacMillan) Very good condition appears unread and has the original press release/publisher’s press sheet inside 211 pages. Dust jacket has some cosmetic wear/light scratches, minor wear to a section of top edges, otherwise VGC

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Designed for a wide audience, this book claims that the standard approach to human thought is wrong in fundamental ways. The author challenges, in particular, the views of Daniel Dennett ( Consciousness Explained ) and Roger Penrose ( The Emperor's New Mind ): first, emotion is a necessary part of thought and so a thinking computer will not be possible until a feeling computer is possible; second, reasoning, logic and analysis are only part of the way we think - there are also other kinds of thinking, such as poetic and religious; third, the nature of thought is intertwined with the nature of art. He also discusses philosophy, psychology, technology, art and literature, in particular the poetry of Wordsworth, Blake, Keats and the Bible.