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Contemplating minds : a forum for artificial intelligence

Title: Contemplating minds : a forum for artificial intelligence / edited by William J. Clancey, Stephen W. Smoliar, and Mark J. Stefik.
Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Description

xiii, 543 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

Is the brain basically a computer? Is the mind a program for symbol processing? What is consciousness, and how could it work? Could we build an artificial mind in a robot, and would it be a good idea? Could an artificial mind have emotions? Is a mind made from smaller and smaller minds, until the pieces become so small that they are no longer mindlike?
Questions like these arise for people curious about themselves, the nature of mind, and our thinking place in the universe. They are also at the core of research in artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology. However, the scholarly debate on these questions has resided in research papers, inaccessible to most people.
One place where the scientific debate has been written for a broad audience is in the book review column of the international journal Artificial Intelligence, which has evolved from simple reviews to a multidisciplinary forum where reviewers and authors debate the latest, often competing, theories of human and artificial intelligence.
Contemplating Minds brings together a selection of these reviews in a form suitable for the general scientific reader, seminar organizer, or student wanting a critical introduction that synthesizes and compares some of the most important and influential books and ideas to have emerged in AI over the past decade.

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Artificial intelligence

Uniform Title

Artificial intelligence (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Contents

I. Symbolic Models of Mind. Computation and Cognition: Toward a Foundation for Cognitive Science / Z. W. Pylyshyn. Unified Theories of Cognition / Allen Newell -- II. Situated Action. Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design / T. Winograd and F. Flores. Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication / Lucy A. Suchman. The Sciences of the Artificial, Second Edition / H. A. Simon. The Psychology of Everyday Things / Donald A. Norman. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things / George Lakoff -- III. Architectures of Interaction. The Society of Mind / Marvin Minsky. The Ecology of Computation / B. A. Huberman. Emergent Computation: Self-Organizing, Collective, and Cooperative Phenomena in Natural and Artificial Computing Networks / Stephanie Forrest. Connections and Symbols / Steven Pinker and Jacques Mehler -- IV. Memory and Consciousness. The Invention of Memory: A New View of the Brain / Israel Rosenfield.
Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection / Gerald M. Edelman. The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness / Gerald M. Edelman. The Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten: An Anatomy of Consciousness / Israel Rosenfield. Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind / Gerald M. Edelman. Consciousness Explained / Daniel C. Dennett. The Evolution of Consciousness: Of Darwin, Freud, and Cranial Fire: The Origins of the Way We Think / Robert Ornstein. Metaphysics of Consciousness / William Seager.

ISBN

0262531194 (pbk.)

LCCN

93035759

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Columbia University Libraries