The Discovery of the Artificial

Behavior, Mind and Machines Before and Beyond Cybernetics
1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-90-481-6015-0
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 314 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: Studies in Cognitive Systems

This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine. Its scope is intended to span the full range of interests from classical problems in the philosophy of mind and philosophical psychology through issues in cognitive psychology and sociobiology (concerning the mental capabilities of other species) to ideas related to artificial intelligence and to computer science. While primary emphasis will be placed upon theoretical, conceptual, and epistemological aspects of these problems and domains, empirical, experimental, and methodological studies will also appear from time to time. The present volume offers a broad and imaginative approach to the study of the mind, which emphasizes several themes, namely: the importance of functional organization apart from the specific material by means of which it may be implemented; the use of modeling to simulate these functional processes and subject them to certain kinds of tests; the use of mentalistic language to describe and predict the behavior of artifacts; and the subsumption of processes of adaptation, learning, and intelligence by means of explanatory principles. The author has produced a rich and complex, lucid and readable discussion that clarifies and illuminates many of the most difficult problems arising within this difficult domain.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cordeschi, R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Robotik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Wissensbasierte Systeme, Expertensysteme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Chemical machines and action systems.- 2 Nervous conduction: early connectionism, physical analogies and machines.- 3 The Robot Approach.- 4 Behavior, purpose and teleology.- 5 Cybernetics and the origins of Artificial Intelligence.- 6 New steps towards the artificial.- 7 The many forms of the artificial.- References.- List of machines.- Name Index.