Brainchildren : essays on designing minds /
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Cambridge :
The Mit Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Representation and mind
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Table of Contents:
- Philosophy of mind. Can machines think?. Speaking for our selves. Do it yourself understanding. Two contrasts : folk craft versus folk science, and belief versus opinion. Real patterns. Julian Jaynes's software archeology. Real consciousness. Instead of qualia. The practical requirements for making a conscious robot. The unimagined preposterousness of Zombies : commentary on Moody, Flanagan and Polger. Artificial intelligence and artificial life. Cognitive wheels : the frame problem of artificial intelligence. Producing future by Telling Stories. The logical geography of computational approaches : a view from the East Pole. Hofstadter's quest : a tale of cognitive pursuit. Foreword to Robert French, the Subtlety of Sameness. Cognitive science as reverse engineering : several meanings of top-down and bottom-up. Artificial life as philosophy. When philosophers encounter artificial intelligence. Review of Allen Newell, Unified theories of cognition. Ethology, animal mind. Out of the armchair and into the field. Cognitive ethology : hunting for bargains or a wild goose chase. Do animal have beliefs?. Why creative intelligence is hard to find : commentary on Whiten and Byrne. Animal consciousness : what matters and why. Information, technology and the virtues of ignorance