Was Herbert Simon The 20th Century’s Galileo?
James H. Morris in the Pittsburgh Quarterly Magazine. Artificial intelligencecomplexitycomputational intelligenceDaniel KahnemanHerbert Simon
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Herbert Simon and Agent-Based Computational Economics
The seventh in a series of excerpts from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Shu-Heng Chen and Ying Fang Kao Herbert Simon is a quintessential interdisciplinary scholar who has made pioneering contributions concerning the notion of bounded rationality, has built models based on it, and has also made important advances in…
Alan Turing’s Concept of Mind
Rajakishore Nath’s newly published paper in the Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research. Alan TuringArtificial intelligencePhilosophy of mindRajakishore NathTuring test
Satisficing in Political Decision Making
An open access entry. Wot? No discussion of Simon’s key The Sciences of the Artificial and broad discussion of collective intentionality? Artificial intelligenceBounded Rationalitycognitive closurecollective intentionalitycomplexityDecision makingHerbert Simonheuristicsphilosophy of social sciencesatisficing
There is no general AI: Why Turing machines cannot pass the Turing test
The very excellent Barry Smith has coauthored this recent open access piece. AIAlan TuringArtificial intelligenceBarry Smithphilosophical humorPhilosophy of mindTuring test
Machine behaviour
New survey paper in Nature inspired by Herb Simon. Sciences of the Artificial is an excellent and very accessible book that feature’s heavily here. In his landmark 1969 book Sciences of the Artificial, Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon wrote: “Natural science is knowledge about natural objects and phenomena. We ask whether there cannot also be ‘artificial’ science—knowledge about artificial…
The Problem of Meaning in AI and Robotics: Still with Us after All These Years
The always interesting Tom Froese in this just published co-authored open access essay. Artificial intelligenceArtificial LifecomplexityDynamic systems theoryenactivismmeaningMind–body problemroboticssituated cognitionTom Froese
