How to Build a Person: A Prolegomenon

by John L. Pollock

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0262161133

ISBN13:9780262161138

Release Date:December 1989

Publisher:MIT Press (MA)

Length:189 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Artificial Intelligence Behavioral Sciences Cognitive Psychology Computer Science Computers Computers & Technology Human Vision & Language Systems Machine Learning Psychology

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