Foundational Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science: Impasse and Solution: Volume 109 (Advances in Psychology, Volume 109) - Softcover

Bickhard, Mark H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0444825207 ISBN 13: 9780444825209

Publisher: North Holland, 1996

Synopsis

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 encoding ism is at root logically incoherent; any programmatic research predicted on it is doomed too distortion and ultimate failure. 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: North Holland
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0444825207
• ISBN 13: 9780444825209
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400