Harold Thimbleby
Abstract
This is the fourth book in the Kluwer Studies in Cognitive Systems series, itself edited by James Fetzer. The thesis of Artificial Intelligence: Its Scope and Limits is that the mental processes of animals, and humans in particular, are qualitatively different from digital machines. The so-called "Basic Model" of AI is, according to Fetzer, that minds are to brains what programs are to computers, and he argues that this view is flawed. This is a straight-forward argument but the book is not accessible to beginners in the field who might learn by exposure to the discussion. The text, indeed, seems at times to be deliberately abstract.
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- Book review: Artificial Intelligence: Its Scope and Limits By James H. Fetzer (Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, 1990)
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