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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Roberto Cordeschi |
ISBN: | 1402006063 9781402006067 |
OCLC Number: | 49860160 |
Description: | xx, 312 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
Contents: | Chemical machines and action systems -- Introduction. Living organisms and machines -- Loeb and the orientation mechanisms of Hammond: "natural" and "artificial" machines -- The dispute over automata after Huxley. "Automatic" and "plastic" regulation of behavior -- Jennings and the action system -- Machines and functional organization -- Men, animals and machines. Reductionism and mentalistic language -- Nervous conduction: early connectionism, physical analogies and machines -- Introduction. Neurological hypotheses and machines -- Nervous conduction as drainage: Spencer, james and McDougall -- Meyer's drainage theory and the limits of mechanical analogy -- Thorndike and the origins of connectionism -- Inorganic nervous systems: Bent Russell's machine -- Other ideas about nervous conduction -- Engineers' machines and biologists' machines -- Stephens' connectionist machine -- The Robot Approach -- Introduction. Forms of learning -- Simulating learning processes -- Rashevsky's physics of mind -- Automatism and rudimentary forms of thought -- "Ultra-automatism." Hull's "psychic" machine -- The advent of robotics and developments of Hull's simulation method -- What happened to the robot approach? -- Behavior, purpose and teleology -- Introduction. Teleological explanations -- Adaptation as equilibration. Lillie and the "reconciliation" of teleology with science -- Warren and teleology as a scientific problem -- Purpose in the natural world and in artefacts -- True and derivative teleology -- Learning and teleology: Perry, McDougall and Tolman. |
Series Title: | Studies in cognitive systems, v. 28. |
Responsibility: | by Roberto Cordeschi. |
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Abstract:
This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine.
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