Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines: 25 (Studies in Cognitive Systems) - Hardcover

Fetzer, James H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792366158 ISBN 13: 9780792366157

Verlag: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000

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Book by Fetzer JH

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Reseña del editor:

A collection of studies providing a perspective on the nature of mind, including arguments that explain why the prevailing paradigm endash the computational conception of language and mentality - can no longer be sustained. An alternative approach is advanced, inspired by the work of Charles S. Pierce, according to which minds are sign-using (or "semiotic") systems, which in turn generates distinctions between different kinds of minds and overcomes problems that burden more familiar alternatives. Unlike conceptions of minds as machines, this approach has obvious evolutionary implications, where differences in semiotic abilities tend to distinguish the species. From this point of view, the scope and limits of computer and AI systems can be more adequately appraised and alternative accounts of consciousness and cognition can be more thoroughly criticised. Readership: Intermediate and advanced students of computer science, AI, cognitive science, and all students of the philosophy of the mind.

Biografía del autor:

Fetzer is Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

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• Verlag: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0792366158
• ISBN 13: 9780792366157
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 340