Walmsley offers a succinct introduction to major philosophical issues in artificial intelligence for advanced students of philosophy of mind, cognitive science and psychology.
As for Gibson, he was less concerned with how vision develops than with how it works. (Notice the then typical assumption that the latter can be understood without considering the former.) And he stressed automatic, environment-driven, ...
The Mind Machine
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Some people (e.g., neuroscience writer John McCrone, in a personal communication) have argued that analog circuitry will be necessary for a true artificial intelligence. They might be right, but if everything in the universe 92.
As such, they will never be replicated by computers. This is the challenging notion of Hubert Dreyfus, Ph. D., archcritic of the artificial intelligence establishment.
Right now, someone in an artificial intelligence lab is fusing silicon circuitry in an attempt to engineer the human mind. In a hospital, a neurosurgeon is attempting to influence a...
Moravec predicts a near-future in which robots will not only attain human levels of intelligence, they will also first displace human workers and then completely supplant humanity.
Mind as Mosaic: The Robot in the Machine is a beguiling introduction to how the mind is created by the brain.
As this book makes clear, the answers to these questions have profound implications to topics such as heroism, creativity, ecology, and the possibility of reason and science.