The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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

 

3. Machine Intelligence

  1. The Machinery of the Mind
  2. Human Logic
  3. Formal Systems
  4. Incompleteness
  5. Truth and Meaning
  6. The Turing Machine
  7. Cybernetics
  8. Feedback
  9. Homeostasis
  10. Control Systems
  11. Algorithms and Automata
  12. Information Theory
  13. Algorithmic Information Theory
  14. Artificial Intelligence
  15. Expert Systems
  16. Programs That Learn: Induction
  17. Programs That Learn: Deduction
  18. Theory Formation
  19. Genetic Algorithms
  20. Emergent Computation
  21. Artificial Life
  22. Life As Virtual Reality
  23. Holism
  24. The Turing Test
  25. Experience vs Knowledge
  26. Goedel's Limit
  27. The Turing Test Revisited
  28. Machines and Real Life
  29. Machine Charisma
  30. What is Intelligence?

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books)

Agre, Philip: THE DYNAMIC STRUCTURE OF EVERYDAY LIFE (MIT, 1988)

Arbib, Michael: METAPHORICAL BRAIN (Wiley, 1972)

Arbib, Michael: METAPHORICAL BRAIN 2 (Wiley, 1989)

Arbib, Michael: BRAINS MACHINES AND MATHEMATICS (Springer Verlag, 1987)

Ashby, Ross: DESIGN FOR A BRAIN (John Wiley, 1952)

Barr, Avron & Feigenbaum Edward: HANDBOOK OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (William Kaufmann, 1982)

Bernstein, Nicholas: GENERAL BIOMECHANICS (1926)

Boden, Margaret: PHILOSOPHY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Oxford, 1990)

Brillouin, Leon: SCIENCE AND INFORMATION THEORY (Academic Press, 1956)

Brooks, Rodney & Luc Steels: THE ARTIFICIAL LIFE ROUTE TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995)

Cannon, Walter: THE WISDOM OF THE BODY (Norton, 1932)

Carbonell, Jaime: MACHINE LEARNING (MIT Press, 1989)

Charniak, Eugene: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMMING (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1987)

Cohen, Fred: IT'S ALIVE (Wiley, 1994)

Cziko Gary: THE THINGS WE DO (MIT Press, 2000)

Deutsch, David: THE FABRIC OF REALITY (Penguin, 1997)

Dreyfus, Hubert: WHAT COMPUTERS CAN'T DO (Harper & Row, 1979)

Dreyfus, Hubert & Dreyfus Stuart: MIND OVER MACHINE (Free Press, 1985)

Feigenbaum, Edward: COMPUTERS AND THOUGHT (MIT Press, 1995)

Frost, Richard: INTRODUCTION TO KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS (MacMillan, 1986)

Genesereth, Michael & Nilsson Nils: LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Morgan Kaufman, 1987)

Graubard, Stephen: THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEBATE (MIT Press, 1988)

Hofstadter, Douglas: GOEDEL ESCHER BACH (Vintage, 1980)

Holland, John: ADAPTATION IN NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS (Univ of Michigan Press, 1975)

Holland, John: EMERGENCE (Basic, 1998)

Holland, John: HIDDEN ORDER (Addison Wesley, 1995)

Koza, John: GENETIC PROGRAMMING (MIT Press, 1992)

Langton, Christopher: ARTIFICIAL LIFE (MIT Press, 1995)

Levy, Steven: ARTIFICIAL LIFE (Pantheon, 1992)

Li, Ming & Vitanyi Paul: AN INTRODUCTION TO KOLMOGOROV COMPLEXITY (Springer-Verlag, 1993)

Luger, George: COMPUTATION AND INTELLIGENCE (MIT Press, 1995)

Maes, Patti: DESIGNING AUTONOMOUS AGENTS (MIT Press, 1990)

Michalski, Ryszard, Carbonell Jaime & Mitchell Tom: MACHINE LEARNING I (Morgan Kaufman, 1983)

Michalski, Ryszard, Carbonell Jaime & Mitchell Tom: MACHINE LEARNING II (Morgan Kaufman, 1986)

Newell, Allen & Simon Herbert: HUMAN PROBLEM SOLVING (Prentice-Hall, 1972)

Nilsson, Nils: THE MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LEARNING MACHINES (Morgan Kaufmann, 1990)

Nilsson, Nils: PRINCIPLES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Tioga, 1980)

Pearl, Judea: HEURISTICS (Addison Wesley, 1984)

Powers, William: BEHAVIOR: THE CONTROL OF PERCEPTION (Aldine, 1973)

Ray, Thomas: ZEN AND THE ART OF CREATING LIFE (1994)

Rucker, Rudy: INFINITY AND THE MIND (Birkhauser, 1982)

Russell, Stuart Jonathan: THE USE OF KNOWLEDGE IN ANALOGY AND INDUCTION (Pitnam, 1989)

Russell, Stuart Jonathan & Norvig Peter: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Prentice Hall, 1995)

Searle John: THE REDISCOVERY OF THE MIND (MIT Press, 1992)

Shannon, Claude & Weaver Warren: THE MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF COMMUNICATION (Univ of Illinois Press, 1963)

Shapiro, Stuart Charles: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (John Wiley, 1992)

Simon, Herbert Alexander: MODELS OF THOUGHT (Yale University Press, 1979)

Simon, Herbert Alexander: THE SCIENCES OF THE ARTIFICIAL (MIT Press, 1969)

Sowa, John: KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION (Brooks Cole, 2000)

Tarski, Alfred: LOGIC, SEMANTICS, METAMATHEMATICS (Clarendon, 1956)

Turing, Alan: PURE MATHEMATICS (Elsevier Science, 1992)

Turing, Alan: MECHANICAL INTELLIGENCE (Elsevier Science, 1992)

Turing, Alan: MORPHOGENESIS (North-Holland, 1992)

Von Neumann, John: THE COMPUTER AND THE BRAIN (Yale Univ Press, 1958)

Von Neumann, John: THEORY OF SELF-REPRODUCING AUTOMATA (Princeton Univ Press, 1947)

Wolfram, Stephen: A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE (Wolfram, 2002)

Wiener, Norbert: CYBERNETICS (John Wiley, 1948)

Winograd, Terry & Flores Fernando: UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS AND COGNITION (Ablex, 1986)