Foundational Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science: Impasse and Solution

✍ Scribed by Mark H. Bickhard and Loren Terveen (Eds.)

• Publisher: North Holland
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 397
• Series: Advances in Psychology 109
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book focuses on a conceptual flaw in contemporary artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Many people have discovered diverse manifestations and facets of this flaw, but the central conceptual impasse is at best only partially perceived. Its consequences, nevertheless, visit themselves as distortions and failures of multiple research projects - and make impossible the ultimate aspirations of the fields.

The impasse concerns a presupposition concerning the nature of representation - that all representation has the nature of encodings: encodingism. Encodings certainly exist, but encoding ism is at root logically incoherent; any programmatic research predicted on it is doomed too distortion and ultimate failure.

The impasse and its consequences - and steps away from that impasse - are explored in a large number of projects and approaches. These include SOAR, CYC, PDP, situated cognition, subsumption architecture robotics, and the frame problems - a general survey of the current research in AI and Cognitive Science emerges.

Interactivism, an alternative model of representation, is proposed and examined.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Editors
Page ii

Edited by
Page iii

Copyright page
Page iv

Preface
Pages xi-xii
Mark H. Bickhard, Loren Terveen

Introduction
Pages 1-4

1 Programmatic Arguments
Pages 7-10

2 The Problem of Representation
Pages 11-17

3 Consequences of Encodingism
Pages 19-23

4 Responses to the Problems of Encodings
Pages 25-33

5 Current Criticisms of AI and Cognitive Science
Pages 35-46

6 General Consequences of the Encodingism Impasse
Pages 47-52

7 The Interactive Model
Pages 55-74

8 Implications for Foundational Mathematics
Pages 75-85

9 Representation: Issues within Encodingism
Pages 89-144

10 Representation: Issues about Encodingism
Pages 145-233

11 Language
Pages 235-259

12 Learning
Pages 261-282

13 Connectionism
Pages 283-297

14 Interactivism and Connectionism
Pages 301-307

15 Foundations of an Interactivist Architecture
Pages 309-324

16 Transcending the Impasse
Pages 327-331

References
Pages 333-366

Index
Pages 367-384