In this paper I start from a definition of "culture of the artificial" which might be stated by referring to the background of methodological and philosophical assumptions which characterizes the development of the information processing analysis of mental processes and of some trends in contemporary cognitive science: in a word, the development of AI as a candidate science of mind. The aim of this paper is to show how (with which plausibility and limitations) the discovery of the mentioned background might be dated back to a period preceding the cybernetic era, the decade 1930-1940 at least. Therefore a somewhat detailed analysis of Hull's "robot approach" is given, as well as of some of its independent and next developments.

The discovery of the artificial. Some protocybernetic developments 1930-1940 / Cordeschi, Roberto. - STAMPA. - vol. 1(2000), pp. 301-326.

The discovery of the artificial. Some protocybernetic developments 1930-1940

CORDESCHI, Roberto
2000

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In this paper I start from a definition of "culture of the artificial" which might be stated by referring to the background of methodological and philosophical assumptions which characterizes the development of the information processing analysis of mental processes and of some trends in contemporary cognitive science: in a word, the development of AI as a candidate science of mind. The aim of this paper is to show how (with which plausibility and limitations) the discovery of the mentioned background might be dated back to a period preceding the cybernetic era, the decade 1930-1940 at least. Therefore a somewhat detailed analysis of Hull's "robot approach" is given, as well as of some of its independent and next developments.
2000
Artificial Intelligence: Critical Concepts in Cognitive Science
9780415193313
Synthetic method; Artificial Intelligence; Cybernetics
02 Pubblicazione su volume::02a Capitolo o Articolo
The discovery of the artificial. Some protocybernetic developments 1930-1940 / Cordeschi, Roberto. - STAMPA. - vol. 1(2000), pp. 301-326.
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