Speaking Minds : Interviews with Twenty Eminent Cognitive Scientists.

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INTRODUCTION; Take It Apart and See How It Runs; Neural Networks and Commonsense; Cognition and Cultural Belief; In Defense of AI; Cognitivism Abandoned; The Folly of Simulation; Farewell to GOFAI?; Embodied Minds and Meanings; Toward a Pragmatic Connectionism; The Serial Imperative; Gestalt Psychology Redux; Against the New Associationism; From Searching to Seeing; Ontology Is the Question; The Hardware Really Matters; Technology Is Not the Problem; The Myth of the Last Metaphor; Why Play the Philosophy Game?; Computers and Social Values; The Albatross of Classical Logic; GLOSSARY.

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Few developments in the intellectual life of the past quarter-century have provoked more controversy than the attempt to engineer human-like intelligence by artificial means. Born of computer science, this effort has sparked a continuing debate among the psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, and linguists who have pioneered--and criticized--artificial intelligence. Are there general principles, as some computer scientists had originally hoped, that would fully describe the activity of both animal and machine minds, just as aerodynamics accounts for the flight of birds and airplanes?

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