"Instead of a review," in Artificial Intelligence 171
... But when we ask ourselves how we do all these things, we usually go around in circles. For instance, as Minsky notes: . . . what is a goal, and how can we have one? If you try to answer such questions in everyday words like “a goal is a thing that one wants to achieve,” you will find yourself in cir ...
... But when we ask ourselves how we do all these things, we usually go around in circles. For instance, as Minsky notes: . . . what is a goal, and how can we have one? If you try to answer such questions in everyday words like “a goal is a thing that one wants to achieve,” you will find yourself in cir ...
Evolutionary psychology as the missing link
... cannot occur sui generis; behavior is an effect produced by a causal system: proximately, by psychological mechanisms. Although researchers would acknowledge these points as patently obvious, in practice, many simply methodologically leapfrog this level, with unfortunate consequences such as those d ...
... cannot occur sui generis; behavior is an effect produced by a causal system: proximately, by psychological mechanisms. Although researchers would acknowledge these points as patently obvious, in practice, many simply methodologically leapfrog this level, with unfortunate consequences such as those d ...
ling411-16 - Rice University
... Neurons of a hypercolumn may have similar response features, upon which others that differ may be superimposed Result is maxicolumns in the hypercolumn ...
... Neurons of a hypercolumn may have similar response features, upon which others that differ may be superimposed Result is maxicolumns in the hypercolumn ...
Behaviorism and the beginning of
... “The ideal of most scientific men is to explain behavior in terms of matter and energy, so that the introduction of psychic implications is considered superfluous” H. S. Jennings (Behavior of the Lower Organisms, 1906: v and 329) Cognitive Science José Luis Bermúdez / Cambridge University Press 20 ...
... “The ideal of most scientific men is to explain behavior in terms of matter and energy, so that the introduction of psychic implications is considered superfluous” H. S. Jennings (Behavior of the Lower Organisms, 1906: v and 329) Cognitive Science José Luis Bermúdez / Cambridge University Press 20 ...
as a PDF
... provide a thorough review of existing agent architectures. Here only the distinction between deliberative, reactive, and hybrid architectures is briefly highlighted. Wooldridge and Jennings ([67], p. 24) define a deliberative agent architecture “to be one that contains an explicitly represented, sym ...
... provide a thorough review of existing agent architectures. Here only the distinction between deliberative, reactive, and hybrid architectures is briefly highlighted. Wooldridge and Jennings ([67], p. 24) define a deliberative agent architecture “to be one that contains an explicitly represented, sym ...
Embodied artificial intelligence
... Anderson is right: EAI proponents often criticise non-embodied AI for taking the view6 that “just as is the case in modern logic, it is the form of the symbol. . . and not its meaning that is the basis of its rule-based transformation” ([4, Section 1], original emphasis7 ). But it’s not clear that E ...
... Anderson is right: EAI proponents often criticise non-embodied AI for taking the view6 that “just as is the case in modern logic, it is the form of the symbol. . . and not its meaning that is the basis of its rule-based transformation” ([4, Section 1], original emphasis7 ). But it’s not clear that E ...
Michèle Lamont: A Portrait of a Capacious Sociologist
... Greer’s book The Female Eunuch, where I discovered the word ‘stereotype’. The very existence of concepts was a true revelation to me because it allowed me to name a phenomenon I could intuit but could not capture without the proper vocabulary. Once you understand that social stereotypes exist, you c ...
... Greer’s book The Female Eunuch, where I discovered the word ‘stereotype’. The very existence of concepts was a true revelation to me because it allowed me to name a phenomenon I could intuit but could not capture without the proper vocabulary. Once you understand that social stereotypes exist, you c ...
personality development
... or body part and its depends on the stimulation of corresponding areas of the body ◦ Each developmental stage a conflict exists that must be resolved before the infant or child can proceed to the next stage ◦ Emphasis on psychosexual energy or libido which is driving forces behind the behaviours. ◦ ...
... or body part and its depends on the stimulation of corresponding areas of the body ◦ Each developmental stage a conflict exists that must be resolved before the infant or child can proceed to the next stage ◦ Emphasis on psychosexual energy or libido which is driving forces behind the behaviours. ◦ ...
PDF - Berkeley Buddhist studies
... and ephemeral set of processes and systems. As a result, philosophers are proposing new theoretical models that (1) are not predicated on the existence of a unitary self or center of experience that has privileged access to its own mental states, and (2) resist the naı̈ve and unwarranted “neurophysi ...
... and ephemeral set of processes and systems. As a result, philosophers are proposing new theoretical models that (1) are not predicated on the existence of a unitary self or center of experience that has privileged access to its own mental states, and (2) resist the naı̈ve and unwarranted “neurophysi ...
Major Related Courses
... Major Related Courses (24 hours) Select 4 courses each from 2 of the following 3 Concentration Areas Core Courses for Psychology/HCI Concentration Area (select 12 hours from list of courses below) CGS 3325 Historical Perspectives: Mind and Machines Since 1600 CGS 4359 Cognitive-Neuroscience CGS 4362 ...
... Major Related Courses (24 hours) Select 4 courses each from 2 of the following 3 Concentration Areas Core Courses for Psychology/HCI Concentration Area (select 12 hours from list of courses below) CGS 3325 Historical Perspectives: Mind and Machines Since 1600 CGS 4359 Cognitive-Neuroscience CGS 4362 ...
Robotic tool use and problem solving based on
... applied action and the observed effect are encoded in a causal probabilistic model, a Bayesian Network (BN)—whose expressive power allows the marginalization over any set of variables given any other set of variables. It considers that actions are applied to a single object using another object held ...
... applied action and the observed effect are encoded in a causal probabilistic model, a Bayesian Network (BN)—whose expressive power allows the marginalization over any set of variables given any other set of variables. It considers that actions are applied to a single object using another object held ...
“A” Level Sociology A Resource
... Where one person sees a single-parent struggling to raise their children as a social problem that can be resolved by punishment, another person sees the same singleparent as a victim of social circumstances that can only be resolved by trying to help the parent overcome their disadvantages. ...
... Where one person sees a single-parent struggling to raise their children as a social problem that can be resolved by punishment, another person sees the same singleparent as a victim of social circumstances that can only be resolved by trying to help the parent overcome their disadvantages. ...
The Hornswoggle Problem
... memory. Consider one example. A signature is recognizably the same whether signed with the domi- nant or non-dominant hand, with the foot, with the mouth or with the pen strapped to the shoulder. How is ‘my signature’ represented in the nervous system? How can completely different muscle sets be inv ...
... memory. Consider one example. A signature is recognizably the same whether signed with the domi- nant or non-dominant hand, with the foot, with the mouth or with the pen strapped to the shoulder. How is ‘my signature’ represented in the nervous system? How can completely different muscle sets be inv ...
Knowledge representation
... A knowledge representation (KR) is most fundamentally a substitute for the thing itself, used to enable an entity to determine consequences by thinking rather than acting, i.e., by reasoning about the world rather than taking action in it. ...
... A knowledge representation (KR) is most fundamentally a substitute for the thing itself, used to enable an entity to determine consequences by thinking rather than acting, i.e., by reasoning about the world rather than taking action in it. ...
Networks and Interactive Learning Among Academic
... telecommunications. Qualitative information was gathered by case study techniques using direct interviews conducted with different actors participating in a set of collaboration projects into which networking and interactive learning have been built during mediumand long-term processes. The paper is ...
... telecommunications. Qualitative information was gathered by case study techniques using direct interviews conducted with different actors participating in a set of collaboration projects into which networking and interactive learning have been built during mediumand long-term processes. The paper is ...
M METHO ODOL LOGY
... dilemma between whether history is a study of human affairs in the past or that of the natural events. By discovering manuscripts or by recovering the details of any significant happening, a historian may choose to develop a narrative – an account of what happened in terms of the sequence of events. ...
... dilemma between whether history is a study of human affairs in the past or that of the natural events. By discovering manuscripts or by recovering the details of any significant happening, a historian may choose to develop a narrative – an account of what happened in terms of the sequence of events. ...
Conscious Willing and the Emerging Sciences of Brain and Behavior
... embarrassment. (Many of us think here of Peter Sellers’ title character in Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr. Strangelove.) And some schizophrenic patients report the perception that other agents are controlling their actions, even though there is good reason to believe that the actions in fact issue from i ...
... embarrassment. (Many of us think here of Peter Sellers’ title character in Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr. Strangelove.) And some schizophrenic patients report the perception that other agents are controlling their actions, even though there is good reason to believe that the actions in fact issue from i ...
The Learning Intelligent Distribution Agent (LIDA)
... coupling the mind to its physical substrate, and provides a high-level specification of the structure and dynamics of cognitive content. Together these two seek to give a complete substrate-independent theoretical account of cognition, known as the LIDA Model. LIDA facilitates the creation of simula ...
... coupling the mind to its physical substrate, and provides a high-level specification of the structure and dynamics of cognitive content. Together these two seek to give a complete substrate-independent theoretical account of cognition, known as the LIDA Model. LIDA facilitates the creation of simula ...
Philosophy of AI: David Chalmers and the Hard
... different substance from matter. A more modern belief would be that it is possible to arrange matter in such a way as to bring about consciousness, one such example (some would say the only) being the human brain. Descartes’ view is not very popular these days, but his argument set up the question o ...
... different substance from matter. A more modern belief would be that it is possible to arrange matter in such a way as to bring about consciousness, one such example (some would say the only) being the human brain. Descartes’ view is not very popular these days, but his argument set up the question o ...
From knowledge to wisdom: the need for an
... There is the sustained and profound injustice of immense differences of wealth across the globe, the industrially advanced first world of North America, Europe and elsewhere experiencing unprecedented wealth while hundreds of millions of people live in conditions of poverty in the developing world, ...
... There is the sustained and profound injustice of immense differences of wealth across the globe, the industrially advanced first world of North America, Europe and elsewhere experiencing unprecedented wealth while hundreds of millions of people live in conditions of poverty in the developing world, ...
cognitive wheels: the frame problem of ai daniel c. dennett
... The installation problem is then the problem of installing in one way or another all the information needed by an agent to plan in a changing world. It is a difficult problem because the information must be installed in a usable format. The problem can be broken down initially into the semantic prob ...
... The installation problem is then the problem of installing in one way or another all the information needed by an agent to plan in a changing world. It is a difficult problem because the information must be installed in a usable format. The problem can be broken down initially into the semantic prob ...
Music, biological evolution, and the brain.
... This section focuses on the three most prominent adaptationist theories of music, based on sexual selection, parental care, and group cohesion. These theories have been proposed and explored independently, but are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, musical protolanguage theories often invoke all three ...
... This section focuses on the three most prominent adaptationist theories of music, based on sexual selection, parental care, and group cohesion. These theories have been proposed and explored independently, but are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, musical protolanguage theories often invoke all three ...
Expert Systems Project Management
... actual products and services in a business environment. This involves both a basic grasp of vocabulary and techniques and an understanding of the pragmatics of expert system development. The goal of this introductory tutorial is to enable designers and managers to understand the criteria for making ...
... actual products and services in a business environment. This involves both a basic grasp of vocabulary and techniques and an understanding of the pragmatics of expert system development. The goal of this introductory tutorial is to enable designers and managers to understand the criteria for making ...
What Is Psychology?
... Schools of thought are systematic and structured ways of approaching questions related to human behaviour that have different sets of underlying assumptions. For example, behaviourism is a school of thought that asserts that psychology can only study and manipulate what it can see—behaviour. This me ...
... Schools of thought are systematic and structured ways of approaching questions related to human behaviour that have different sets of underlying assumptions. For example, behaviourism is a school of thought that asserts that psychology can only study and manipulate what it can see—behaviour. This me ...