Researchers in cybernetics and AI, neural nets and connectionism, ALife, and new robotics have endeavored to build different machines that could simulate functions of living organisms, such as adaptation and development, intelligence, and learning. In this book these research programs are discussed, and their philosophical significance is stressed. One of the actual novelties in this book consists of the fact that certain projects involving the building of simulative machines before the advent of cybernetics are investigated for the first time, on the basis of little-known, and sometimes completely forgotten or unpublished, texts. These precybernetic projects can be considered as steps towards the discovery of a simulative methodology that has been fully developed by those research programs, and that shares some of their central goals and key methodological proposals. The book provides a valuable text for undergraduate and graduate courses on the historical and theoretical issues of Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Neuroscience, and the Philosophy of Mind. The book should also be of interest for researchers in these fields, who will find in it analyses of certain crucial issues in both the earlier and more recent history of their disciplines, as well as interesting overall insights into the current debate on the nature of mind.

The Discovery of the Artificial: Behavior, Mind and Machines Before and Beyond Cybernetics / Cordeschi, Roberto. - STAMPA. - (2002).

The Discovery of the Artificial: Behavior, Mind and Machines Before and Beyond Cybernetics

CORDESCHI, Roberto
2002

Abstract

Researchers in cybernetics and AI, neural nets and connectionism, ALife, and new robotics have endeavored to build different machines that could simulate functions of living organisms, such as adaptation and development, intelligence, and learning. In this book these research programs are discussed, and their philosophical significance is stressed. One of the actual novelties in this book consists of the fact that certain projects involving the building of simulative machines before the advent of cybernetics are investigated for the first time, on the basis of little-known, and sometimes completely forgotten or unpublished, texts. These precybernetic projects can be considered as steps towards the discovery of a simulative methodology that has been fully developed by those research programs, and that shares some of their central goals and key methodological proposals. The book provides a valuable text for undergraduate and graduate courses on the historical and theoretical issues of Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Neuroscience, and the Philosophy of Mind. The book should also be of interest for researchers in these fields, who will find in it analyses of certain crucial issues in both the earlier and more recent history of their disciplines, as well as interesting overall insights into the current debate on the nature of mind.
2002
1402006063
Cybernetics; Artificial Intelligence; Robotics; Cognitive Science; PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
03 Monografia::03a Saggio, Trattato Scientifico
The Discovery of the Artificial: Behavior, Mind and Machines Before and Beyond Cybernetics / Cordeschi, Roberto. - STAMPA. - (2002).
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