{"product_id":"artificial-minds-9780262061780","title":"Artificial Minds","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecent decades have produced a blossoming of research in artificial systems thatexhibit important properties of mind. But what exactly is this dramatic new work and how does itchange the way we think about the mind  or even about who or what has mind?Stan Franklin is theperfect tour guide through the contemporary interdisciplinary matrix of artificial intelligence cognitive science  cognitive neuroscience  artificial neural networks  artificial life  and roboticsthat is producing a new paradigm of mind. Leisurely and informal  but always informed  his tourtouches on all of the major facets of mechanisms of mind.Along the way  Franklin makes the case fora perspective that rejects a rigid distinction between mind and non-mind in favor of a continuumfrom less to more mind  and for the role of mind as a control structure with the essential task ofchoosing the next action. Selected stops include the best of the work in these different fields with the key concepts and results explained in just enough detail to allow readers to decide forthemselves why the work is significant.Major attractions include animal minds  Allan Newells SOAR the three Artificial Intelligence debates  John Hollands genetic algorithms  Wilsons Animat Brooks subsumption architecture  Jacksons pandemonium theory  Ornsteins multimind  MarvinMinskys society of mind  Pattie Maess behavior networks  Gerald Edelmans neural Darwinism Dreschers schema mechanisms  Pentti Kanervas sparse distributed memory  Douglas Hofstadter andMelanie Mitchells Copycat  and Agre and Chapmans deictic representations.A Bradford Book\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789760127029,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262061783","price":24.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262061780.jpg?v=1784696861","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/artificial-minds-9780262061780","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}