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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780631183853
Year: 1993
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 336
Description:
Presupposing no familiarity with the technical concepts of either
philosophy or computing, this clear introduction reviews the
progress made in AI since the inception of the field in 1956.
Copeland goes on to analyze what those working in AI must achieve
before they can claim to have built a thinking machine and
appraises their prospects of succeeding.
There are clear introductions to connectionism and to the
language of thought hypothesis which weave together material from
philosophy, artificial intelligence and neuroscience. John Searle's
attacks on AI and cognitive science are countered and close
attention is given to foundational issues, including the nature of
computation, Turing Machines, the Church-Turing Thesis and the
difference between classical symbol processing and parallel
distributed processing. The book also explores the possibility of
machines having free will and consciousness and concludes with a
discussion of in what sense the human brain may be a computer.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780631183853
Year: 1993
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 336
Description:
Presupposing no familiarity with the technical concepts of either
philosophy or computing, this clear introduction reviews the
progress made in AI since the inception of the field in 1956.
Copeland goes on to analyze what those working in AI must achieve
before they can claim to have built a thinking machine and
appraises their prospects of succeeding.
There are clear introductions to connectionism and to the
language of thought hypothesis which weave together material from
philosophy, artificial intelligence and neuroscience. John Searle's
attacks on AI and cognitive science are countered and close
attention is given to foundational issues, including the nature of
computation, Turing Machines, the Church-Turing Thesis and the
difference between classical symbol processing and parallel
distributed processing. The book also explores the possibility of
machines having free will and consciousness and concludes with a
discussion of in what sense the human brain may be a computer.