What is included with this book?
Series Editor's Preface | p. ix |
List of Illustrations | p. xi |
Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Historical and Theoretical Background | p. 4 |
Early modern roots | p. 5 |
Descartes: the ghost in the machine | p. 5 |
Hobbes and Hume: mental mechanics | p. 7 |
Pascal and Leibniz: mathematical machines | p. 10 |
Turing and the 'Dartmouth Conference' | p. 13 |
Varieties of AI | p. 14 |
Is AI an empirical or a priori enterprise? | p. 19 |
AI and the mind-body problem | p. 23 |
Classical Cognitive Science and 'Good Old Fashioned AI' | p. 26 |
Three roots of the classical approach | p. 27 |
Logic | p. 27 |
Linguistics | p. 30 |
Functionalism and the 'Representational Theory of Mind (RTM)' | p. 32 |
Algorithms, Turing Machines and Turing's thesis | p. 35 |
GOFAI's success stories | p. 44 |
Reasoning: the logic theory machine | p. 44 |
Chess: Deep Blue | p. 48 |
Conversation: ELIZA | p. 51 |
GOFAI and the mind-body problem | p. 54 |
Gödel, the Turing Test and the Chinese Room | p. 57 |
Gödel's incompleteness theorem | p. 58 |
The Turing Test | p. 64 |
Searle's Chinese Room | p. 69 |
Connectionism | p. 77 |
Physiological and psychological realism | p. 79 |
Representation reconsidered | p. 83 |
Some connectionist models | p. 88 |
Pattern recognition: the mine/rock detector | p. 88 |
Language: past-tense learning | p. 90 |
Disorders: network models of schizophrenia | p. 93 |
Connectionism and the mind-body problem | p. 96 |
Criticisms and Consequences of the Connectionist Approach | p. 99 |
Connectionism, folk psychology and eliminativism | p. 99 |
Connectionism and compositionality | p. 107 |
The Dynamical Approach | p. 115 |
Motivation | p. 115 |
Dynamical systems theory | p. 117 |
Dynamical cognitive science: time and timing | p. 120 |
Dynamical cognitive science in action | p. 124 |
Finger wagging: the 'HKB' model | p. 124 |
Beer on bugs | p. 126 |
Perceptual categorisation | p. 130 |
Taking stock: consequences and criticisms of the dynamical approach | p. 131 |
Explanation | p. 132 |
Situation | p. 134 |
Representation revis(it)ed | p. 138 |
Incrementalism | p. 143 |
The dynamical approach and the mind-body problem | p. 146 |
The Future: Mind and Machine Merged | p. 151 |
The extended mind hypothesis | p. 152 |
Cognitive technology and human-machine hybrids | p. 160 |
'The singularity' | p. 165 |
Conclusion | p. 170 |
Notes | p. 173 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 176 |
Works Cited | p. 179 |
Index | p. 189 |
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