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

Bickhard PhD, Mark H.; Terveen, L.

ISBN 10: 0444820485 / ISBN 13: 9780444820488

Published by North Holland, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Foundational Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science: Impasse and Solution (Volume 109) (Advances in Psychology, Volume 109)
• Publisher: North Holland
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0444820485
• ISBN 13: 9780444820488
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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 asdistortions 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, butencodingism 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.

About the Author

Mark Bickhard is the Henry R. Luce Professor in Cognitive Robotics and the Philosophy of Knowledge at Lehigh University, and is affiliated with the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology. His work ranges from process metaphysics and emergence to consciousness, cognition, language, and functional models of brain processes, to persons and social ontologies. Bickhard’s work on cognition features a model of cognition as emergent in agent processes for interacting with the world.