Image of How to build a person : a prolegomenon
Bookmark Share

Text

How to build a person : a prolegomenon

"A Bradford book."Pollock describes an exciting theory of rationality and its partial implementation in OSCAR, a computer system whose descendants will literally be persons.Building a person has been an elusive goal in artificial intelligence. This failure, John Pollock argues, is because the problems involved are essentially philosophical; what is needed for the construction of a person is a physical system that mimics human rationality. Pollock describes an exciting theory of rationality and its partial implementation in OSCAR, a computer system whose descendants will literally be persons. In developing the philosophical superstructure for this bold undertaking, Pollock defends the conception of man as an intelligent machine and argues that mental states are physical states and persons are physical objects as described in the fable of Oscar, the self conscious machine. Pollock brings a unique blend of philosophy and artificial intelligence to bear on the vexing problem of how to construct a physical system that thinks, is self conscious, has desires, fears, intentions, and a full range of mental states. He brings together an impressive array of technical work in philosophy to drive theory construction in AI. The result is described in his final chapter on "cognitive carpentry."A Bradford BookOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Availability

No copy data

Detail Information
Series Title
-
Call Number
001 POL h
Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : : MIT Press,.,
Collation
1 online resource (xi, 189 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
0585336997
Classification
001
Content Type
text
Media Type
computer
Carrier Type
online resource
Edition
-
Subject(s)
Artificial Intelligence
Machine learning.
Specific Detail Info
-
Statement of Responsibility
Other Information
Cataloger
-
Source
-
Validator
maya
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/3588.001.0001
Journal Volume
-
Journal Issue
-
Subtitle
-
Parallel Title
-
Other version/related

No other version available

File Attachment
Comments
You must be logged in to post a comment