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A Critique of Artificial Reason

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An evaluation of 20th-century salt-water artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive simulation (CS), a philosophical and psychological explanation for AI and CS failures, and an exploration of potentially more successful directions for future AI and CS developments.

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MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
354

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Subjects
artificial intelligence, cognitive simulation, human information processing, phenomenology, problem solving
People
Ed Feigenbaum, Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), John McCarthy (1927-2011), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), Marvin Minsky, Allen Newell, Herbert Simon, Joseph Wiesenbaum, Terry Winograd, Patrick Winston, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
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MIT, RAND, Stanford
Times
second half of the 20th century

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First Sentence

"The attempts at language translation by computers had the earliest success, the most extensive and expensive researdh, and the most unequivocal failure."

Table of Contents

Contents Page vii
Introduction to the MIT Press Edition Page ix
Acknowledgments Page liii
Introduction to the Revised Edition (1979) Page 1
Introduction Page 67
I. Ten Years of Research in Artificial Intelligence (1957–1967)
1. Phase I (1957–1962) Cognitive Simulation Page 91
2. Phase II (1962–1967) Semantic Information Processing Page 130
Conclusion Page 149
II. Assumptions Underlying Persistent Optimism
Introduction Page 155
3. The Biological Assumption Page 159
4. The Psychological Assumption Page 163
5. The Epistemological Assumption Page 189
6. The Ontological Assumption Page 206
Conclusion Page 225
III. Alternatives to the Traditional Assumptions
7. The Role of the Body in Intelligent Behavior Page 235
8. The Situation: Orderly Behavior Without Recourse to Rules Page 256
9. The Situation as a Function of Human Needs Page 272
Conclusion Page 281
Conclusion: The Scope and Limits of Artificial Reason
The Limits of Artificial Intelligence Page 285
Notes Page 307
Index Page 346

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1972, 1979, 1992

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Dewey Decimal Class
006.3—dc20
Library of Congress
Q335.D74 1992

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Format
hardcover
Pagination
liii, 354p
Number of pages
354

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OL29772281M
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9780262315500

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