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Overview
"What is mind?" "Can we build synthetic or artificial minds?" Think these questions are only reserved for Science Fiction? Well, not anymore. This collection presents a diverse overview of where the development of artificial minds is as the twenty first century begins. Examined from nearly all viewpoints, Visions of Mind includes perspectives from philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, social studies and artificial intelligence. This collection comes largely as a result of many conferences and symposiums conducted by many of the leading minds on this topic. At the core is Professor Aaron Sloman's symposium from the spring 2000 UK Society for Artificial Intelligence conference. Authors from that symposium, as well as others from around the world have updated their perspectives and contributed to this powerful book. The result is a multi-disciplinary approach to the long term problem of designing a human-like mind, whether for scientific, social, or engineering purposes. The topics addressed within this text are valuable to both artificial intelligence and cognitive science, and also to the academic disciplines that they draw on and feed. Among those disciplines are philosophy, computer science, and psychology.
Synopsis
This volume contains 15 papers that explore the current status of artificial intelligence from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, including philosophy, psychology, social studies, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. Davis (artificial intelligence, U. of Hull, UK) has selected many of the papers from the "How to Design a Functioning Mind" workshop conducted at the Spring 2000 symposium of The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behavior. Topics addressed include a model of emotions based on the requirements needed for nurturing species to adapt to social environments, the nature and effects of metaphorical views that a mind can use to think about itself and other minds, a new framework for understanding the modularity of mind being researched in cognitive science, issues of memory and affect in connection with architectures for artificial cognition, and the evolutionary useful properties of free will. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR