Primitively Rational Belief
... and the features of the process that make it a rational belief-forming process must consist purely of features that the process has in virtue of its role in the thinker’s mind. Nothing that is external to the thinker’s mind can be involved in making the process rational. The most prominent rival to ...
... and the features of the process that make it a rational belief-forming process must consist purely of features that the process has in virtue of its role in the thinker’s mind. Nothing that is external to the thinker’s mind can be involved in making the process rational. The most prominent rival to ...
The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis
... also be capable of designing a machine more intelligent than itself. If every machine in turn does what it is capable of, we should expect a sequence of ever more intelligent machines.2 This intelligence explosion is sometimes combined with another idea, which we might call the “speed explosion”. T ...
... also be capable of designing a machine more intelligent than itself. If every machine in turn does what it is capable of, we should expect a sequence of ever more intelligent machines.2 This intelligence explosion is sometimes combined with another idea, which we might call the “speed explosion”. T ...
Adding Consciousness to Cognitive Architectures
... 11.12Grounding involves sensing, perception, grounding* and action 11.13Grounding and embodiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.14Example of grounding and embodiment concepts in a mobile robotics application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.15Representation of a hierarchy ...
... 11.12Grounding involves sensing, perception, grounding* and action 11.13Grounding and embodiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.14Example of grounding and embodiment concepts in a mobile robotics application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.15Representation of a hierarchy ...
Opening the Black Box: Theory of Human Needs Reconsidered
... One might ask, “What is wrong with that?” Indeed, if it is true that positivism is the dominant paradigm of the Western tradition, such a question would be expected. Facts (without their subjective conditions) and rationality are the two beacons of objectivity in the positivistic view. There are oth ...
... One might ask, “What is wrong with that?” Indeed, if it is true that positivism is the dominant paradigm of the Western tradition, such a question would be expected. Facts (without their subjective conditions) and rationality are the two beacons of objectivity in the positivistic view. There are oth ...
Transformed Social Interaction - Virtual Human Interaction Lab
... actually talking to devices, which indicates that the process of social interaction via telephone is to some extent “cognitively impenetrable” (Pylyshyn, 1980). Mirror talking provides another compelling example. If a room contains a large mirror, people often find themselves conversing with each ot ...
... actually talking to devices, which indicates that the process of social interaction via telephone is to some extent “cognitively impenetrable” (Pylyshyn, 1980). Mirror talking provides another compelling example. If a room contains a large mirror, people often find themselves conversing with each ot ...
Transformed Social Interaction: Decoupling Representation from
... actually talking to devices, which indicates that the process of social interaction via telephone is to some extent “cognitively impenetrable” (Pylyshyn, 1980). Mirror talking provides another compelling example. If a room contains a large mirror, people often find themselves conversing with each ot ...
... actually talking to devices, which indicates that the process of social interaction via telephone is to some extent “cognitively impenetrable” (Pylyshyn, 1980). Mirror talking provides another compelling example. If a room contains a large mirror, people often find themselves conversing with each ot ...
Theorising Social Constraint: The Concept of
... situation? Archer argues that the endurance of the demographic structure cannot be attributed to contemporary actors. That is, we cannot lay the blame on the current generation, even though they constitute the demographic structure, because ‘it was not their intention to structure it that way nor th ...
... situation? Archer argues that the endurance of the demographic structure cannot be attributed to contemporary actors. That is, we cannot lay the blame on the current generation, even though they constitute the demographic structure, because ‘it was not their intention to structure it that way nor th ...
The Wicked Nature of Social Systems
... and feedback. Your support has been essential for this thesis, not least for helping me translate some of the more obscure ideas within complexity science to better fit a sociological audience. I also wish to thank my excellent assistant supervisor, Justus Uitermark at UvA in Amsterdam. I am gratef ...
... and feedback. Your support has been essential for this thesis, not least for helping me translate some of the more obscure ideas within complexity science to better fit a sociological audience. I also wish to thank my excellent assistant supervisor, Justus Uitermark at UvA in Amsterdam. I am gratef ...
Expert Systems - Myreaders.info
... procedures, or data intrinsic to the domain. To incorporate these information into the system, it is necessary to make use of one or more knowledge representation methods. Some of these methods are described here. Transferring knowledge from the human expert to a computer is often the most difficult ...
... procedures, or data intrinsic to the domain. To incorporate these information into the system, it is necessary to make use of one or more knowledge representation methods. Some of these methods are described here. Transferring knowledge from the human expert to a computer is often the most difficult ...
What Are Ontologies, and Why Do We Need Them?
... is not obvious in general-purpose ontologies, because the top levels of such ontologies commit to the most commonly useful subtypes. However, domain-specific ontologies can contain categorizations along dimensions that are usually outside the general ontology. Task dependence of ontologies. How task ...
... is not obvious in general-purpose ontologies, because the top levels of such ontologies commit to the most commonly useful subtypes. However, domain-specific ontologies can contain categorizations along dimensions that are usually outside the general ontology. Task dependence of ontologies. How task ...
Chapter 6 - Expert Systems and knowledge
... involved in the building of the ES. ES is limited in the sense that it focuses on a narrow problem domain and can not therefore be applied outside of the specific problem domain. For this reason it involves intensive development cost. According to Goodall (1985), Mallach (1994), Turban (1995) and Tu ...
... involved in the building of the ES. ES is limited in the sense that it focuses on a narrow problem domain and can not therefore be applied outside of the specific problem domain. For this reason it involves intensive development cost. According to Goodall (1985), Mallach (1994), Turban (1995) and Tu ...
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... approach and the Dynamical Systems approach ? Classical AI and computational approaches do not take account of time -'life as a series of snapshots Dynamical Systems approach -time is central, 'life as process' Non-Symbolic AI lec 4 ...
... approach and the Dynamical Systems approach ? Classical AI and computational approaches do not take account of time -'life as a series of snapshots Dynamical Systems approach -time is central, 'life as process' Non-Symbolic AI lec 4 ...
Social Complexity and Evolved Moral Principles.
... to bring our discussion down to more specific policy problems. Edward Tanner, in his popular book Why Things Bite Back, points out several complicating effects of complexity and tight-coupling for predicting the consequences of changes. Revenge effects are the unintended and unexpected consequences ...
... to bring our discussion down to more specific policy problems. Edward Tanner, in his popular book Why Things Bite Back, points out several complicating effects of complexity and tight-coupling for predicting the consequences of changes. Revenge effects are the unintended and unexpected consequences ...
Russell, Bertrand - The Problems of Philosophy
... as they appear. Here we have already the beginning of one of the distinctions that cause most trouble in philosophy -- the distinction between 'appearance' and 'reality', between what things seem to be and what they are. The painter wants to know what things seem to be, the practical man and the phi ...
... as they appear. Here we have already the beginning of one of the distinctions that cause most trouble in philosophy -- the distinction between 'appearance' and 'reality', between what things seem to be and what they are. The painter wants to know what things seem to be, the practical man and the phi ...
Speaking the Unnamable: A Phenomenology of Sense in T. S.
... itself with the structure of language which articulates the meaning of that reality. Eliot thus conflates epistemology with ontology, and his dissertation in this light appears as a philosophical elaboration on the nature of this conflation and an insistence that every epistemological project must r ...
... itself with the structure of language which articulates the meaning of that reality. Eliot thus conflates epistemology with ontology, and his dissertation in this light appears as a philosophical elaboration on the nature of this conflation and an insistence that every epistemological project must r ...
Sensus communis Clarifications of a Kantian Concept on the Way to
... Secondly, sensus communis is not what is commonly called 'common sense'. Sensus communis is neither intellectio communis nor communis opinio, it is neither 'ordinary good sense' nor 'common belief', it is no 'gemeine Menschenverstand', no 'common human understanding'. Common belief is despised by Ka ...
... Secondly, sensus communis is not what is commonly called 'common sense'. Sensus communis is neither intellectio communis nor communis opinio, it is neither 'ordinary good sense' nor 'common belief', it is no 'gemeine Menschenverstand', no 'common human understanding'. Common belief is despised by Ka ...
The Explanation of Social Action
... involve theory, and the reader will always be able to bring exceptions to mind. But, few people defend the idea that the enterprise of social science could get very far without any theory. Instead, we may debate what makes for a better or a worse theory. Even as we implicitly evaluate theories, howe ...
... involve theory, and the reader will always be able to bring exceptions to mind. But, few people defend the idea that the enterprise of social science could get very far without any theory. Instead, we may debate what makes for a better or a worse theory. Even as we implicitly evaluate theories, howe ...
Exploring the world of knowledge management: agreements and
... A myriad researchers and practitioners have presented KM methodologies, frameworks, and technologies and have discussed various KM theoretical and practical issues. Some 15 years after its introduction, KM is now a keyword in bibliographic databases and forms the conceptual nucleus of a developing l ...
... A myriad researchers and practitioners have presented KM methodologies, frameworks, and technologies and have discussed various KM theoretical and practical issues. Some 15 years after its introduction, KM is now a keyword in bibliographic databases and forms the conceptual nucleus of a developing l ...
1967DKarticle
... factors and the ideas supposed to “correspond” to them, to be “determined” by them, and so on. To take Mannheim’s work seriously on its own terms, it will not do to assign it to the pre-history of scientific sociology, to win easy victories over it by applying standards expressly rejected by Mannhei ...
... factors and the ideas supposed to “correspond” to them, to be “determined” by them, and so on. To take Mannheim’s work seriously on its own terms, it will not do to assign it to the pre-history of scientific sociology, to win easy victories over it by applying standards expressly rejected by Mannhei ...
Is there a future for AI without representation?
... Should we take the title of Brooks paper the “Intelligence without representation” seriously? He says that that the world and goals (elsewhere called ‘intentions’) need not be “explicitly” represented (Brooks 1991b, 142, 148f). Sensor and motor states are permitted, and said to “represent”, while hi ...
... Should we take the title of Brooks paper the “Intelligence without representation” seriously? He says that that the world and goals (elsewhere called ‘intentions’) need not be “explicitly” represented (Brooks 1991b, 142, 148f). Sensor and motor states are permitted, and said to “represent”, while hi ...
Limits of the human model in understanding artificial Intelligence
... Lastly a possibility remains that some minds are physically or informationally recursively nested within other minds. With respect to the physical nesting we can consider a type of mind suggested by Kelly [15] who talks about “a very slow invisible mind over large physical distances”. It is possible ...
... Lastly a possibility remains that some minds are physically or informationally recursively nested within other minds. With respect to the physical nesting we can consider a type of mind suggested by Kelly [15] who talks about “a very slow invisible mind over large physical distances”. It is possible ...
Implicit Bias, Context, and Character
... imagined oneself in this powerful social role will have effects on one’s implicit evaluations (see below), and these effects too can be thought of as part of one’s context. Similarly, perhaps one had a fight with one’s friend before entering the lab, and began the task feeling an acute sense of disr ...
... imagined oneself in this powerful social role will have effects on one’s implicit evaluations (see below), and these effects too can be thought of as part of one’s context. Similarly, perhaps one had a fight with one’s friend before entering the lab, and began the task feeling an acute sense of disr ...
The knowledge level - Research Showcase @ CMU
... Early work in theorem proving programs for quantified fogies culminated in 1965 with Alan Robinson's development of a machine-oriented formulation of first-order logic called Resolution (Robinson, 1965). There followed an immensely productive period of exploration of resolution-based theorem-proving ...
... Early work in theorem proving programs for quantified fogies culminated in 1965 with Alan Robinson's development of a machine-oriented formulation of first-order logic called Resolution (Robinson, 1965). There followed an immensely productive period of exploration of resolution-based theorem-proving ...
AMC - Queen Mary University of London
... forming a new conceptual space as well. For example, within a particular conceptual space of musical genres, one can discover novel combinations of features to meet an artistic goal, e.g., combining a traditional folk melody with blues harmonization, or generating idiomatic jazz variations of melodi ...
... forming a new conceptual space as well. For example, within a particular conceptual space of musical genres, one can discover novel combinations of features to meet an artistic goal, e.g., combining a traditional folk melody with blues harmonization, or generating idiomatic jazz variations of melodi ...
REVIEW David Couzens Hoy, The Time of Our Lives: A Critical
... presentation of each philosopher’s position on temporality unnecessarily complicated. To examine understandings of the future among phenomenologists, one would also need to include understandings of the past. Gadamer’s ideas on time horizons, or Nietzsche’s ideas on the Eternal return are but two ex ...
... presentation of each philosopher’s position on temporality unnecessarily complicated. To examine understandings of the future among phenomenologists, one would also need to include understandings of the past. Gadamer’s ideas on time horizons, or Nietzsche’s ideas on the Eternal return are but two ex ...