The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

 

5. Common Sense: Engineering the Mind

  1. The Sense of the Mind
  2. Illogical Reasoning
  3. The Demise of Deduction
  4. Intuitionism
  5. Plausible Reasoning
  6. The Impossibility of
  7. Second Thoughts
  8. Uncertainty
  9. Fuzzy Logic
  10. Possibility Theory
  11. A Fuzzy Physics?
  12. The World of Objects
  13. The Measure Space
  14. Histories of the World
  15. Qualitative Reasoning
  16. Heuretics
  17. Stupidity

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books)

 Bobrow Daniel: QUALITATIVE REASONING ABOUT PHYSICAL SYSTEMS (MIT Press, 1985)

 Bobrow Daniel: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN PERSPECTIVE (MIT Press, 1994)

 Brachman Ronald: READINGS IN KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION (Morgan Kaufman, 1985)

 Davis Ernest: REPRESENTATION OF COMMON-SENSE KNOWLEDGE (Morgan Kaufman, 1990)

 Dubois Didier & Prade Henri: POSSIBILITY THEORY (Plenum Press, 1988)

 Dubois Didier, Prade Henri & Yager Ronald: READINGS IN FUZZY SETS (Morgan Kaufmann, 1993)

Engelmore, Robert: BLACKBOARD SYSTEMS (Academic Press, 1988)

 Forbus Kenneth & DeKleer Johan: BUILDING PROBLEM SOLVERS (MIT Press, 1993)

Gigerenzer Gerd & Todd Peter: SIMPLE HEURISTICS THAT MAKES US SMART (Oxford Univ Press, 1999)

 Gupta Anil & Belnap Nuel: THE REVISION THEORY OF TRUTH (MIT Press, 1993)

 Heyting Arend: INTUITIONISM (North Holland, 1956)

 Hobbs Jerry & Moore Robert: FORMAL THEORIES OF THE COMMONSENSE WORLD (Ablex Publishing, 1985)

 Kandell Abraham: FUZZY MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES (Addison Wesley, 1986)

 Kosko Bart: NEURAL NETWORKS AND FUZZY SYSTEMS (Prentice Hall, 1992)

 Kosko Bart: FUZZY THINKING (Hyperion, 1993)

 Kuipers Benjamin: QUALITATIVE REASONING (MIT Press, 1994)

 Lenat Douglas: BUILDING LARGE KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS (Addison-Wesley, 1990)

 Lukaszewicz Witold: NON-MONOTONIC REASONING (Ellis Harwood, 1990)

 Marek Wiktor & Truszczynski Miroslav: NON-MONOTONIC LOGIC (Springer Verlag, 1991)

 Martin-Lof Per: INTUITIONISTIC TYPE THEORY (Bibliopolis, 1984)

 Polya George: MATHEMATICS AND PLAUSIBLE REASONING (Princeton Univ Press, 1954)

 Savage Leonard: THE FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICS (John Wiley, 1954)

 Shafer Glenn: A MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF EVIDENCE (Princeton Univ Press, 1976)

 Sowa John: PRINCIPLES OF SEMANTIC NETWORKS (Morgan Kaufman, 1991)

 Turner Raymond: LOGICS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Ellis Horwood, 1985)

 Tversky Amos, Kahnemann Daniel & Slovic Paul: JUDGMENT UNDER UNCERTAINTY (Cambridge University Press, 1982)

 Weld Daniel & DeKleer Johan: QUALITATIVE REASONING ABOUT PHYSICAL SYSTEMS (Morgan Kaufman, 1990)

 Zimmermann Hans: FUZZY SET THEORY (Kluwer Academics, 1985)