Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence An Interdisciplinary Debate [Hardcover]

Cognition and artificial intelligence are entering a new era in which the aspects of symbolic manipulation and of connectionism begin to come together. This leads to a dialog of truly interdisciplinary character. The book covers aspects of fuzzy logic, case based reasoning, learning as well as meaning, language, and consciousness. The authors of this topical volume have their background in logic, computer science, physics and mathematics, philosophy, psychology and neurobiology.Cognition and artificial intelligence are entering a new era in which the aspects of symbolic manipulation and of connectionism begin to come together. This leads to a dialog of truly interdisciplinary character. The book covers aspects of fuzzy logic, case based reasoning, learning as well as meaning, language, and consciousness. The authors of this topical volume have their background in logic, computer science, physics and mathematics, philosophy, psychology and neurobiology.Intelligence: A Nomadic Concept.- Self-consciousness as a Philosophical Problem.- Meaning Skepticism and Cognitive Science.- Freges Sense and Tarskis Undefinability.- Logics of Knowing and Believing.- Knowledge-Based Systems.- Neural Networks.- Problem Solving with Neural Networks.- Paradigm Shifts in the Neurobiology of Perception.- Neural Network Models in Psychology and Psychopathology.- Questions Concerning Learning in Neural Networks.Cognition and artificial intelligence are entering a new era in which the aspects of symbolic manipulation and of connectionism begin to come together. This leads to a dialog of truly interdisciplinary character. The book covers aspects of fuzzy logic, case based reasoning, learning as well as meaning, language, and consciousness. The authors of this topical volume have their background in logic, computer science, physics and mathematics, philosophy, psychology and neurobiology.By bringing together the ideas of symbolic manipulation and connectionism this book marks the beginning ofl³“