| Foundational Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science: Impasse and Solution Contributor(s): Bickhard, Mark H. (Author), M. H. Bickhard, Bickhard (Author), Bickhard, M. H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0444825207 ISBN-13: 9780444825209 Publisher: Elsevier Bv OUR PRICE: $131.67 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1995 Annotation: The book focuses on a conceptual flaw in contemporary artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Many people have discovered diverse manifestations and facets of this flaw, but the central conceptual impasse is at best only partially perceived. Its consequences, nevertheless, visit themselves as distortions and failures of multiple research projects - and make impossible the ultimate aspirations of the fields. The impasse concerns a presupposition concerning the nature of representation - that all representation has the nature of encodings: encodingism. Encodings certainly exist, but The impasse and its consequences - and steps away from that impasse - are explored in a large number of projects and approaches. These include SOAR, CYC, PDP, situated cognition, subsumption architecture robotics, and the frame problems - a general survey of the current research in AI and Cognitive Science emerges. Interactivism, an alternative model of representation, is proposed and examined. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Industrial & Organizational Psychology - Psychology | Experimental Psychology - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
| Dewey: 153.15 |
| LCCN: 96036526 |
| Series: Advances in Psychology |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.23 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The book focuses on a conceptual flaw in contemporary artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Many people have discovered diverse manifestations and facets of this flaw, but the central conceptual impasse is at best only partially perceived. Its consequences, nevertheless, visit themselves as distortions and failures of multiple research projects - and make impossible the ultimate aspirations of the fields. The impasse concerns a presupposition concerning the nature of representation - that all representation has the nature of encodings: encodingism. Encodings certainly exist, but The impasse and its consequences - and steps away from that impasse - are explored in a large number of projects and approaches. These include SOAR, CYC, PDP, situated cognition, subsumption architecture robotics, and the frame problems - a general survey of the current research in AI and Cognitive Science emerges. Interactivism, an alternative model of representation, is proposed and examined. |