ARTIFICIAL MINDS

Author: Stan Franklin

Publisher: MIT

Description : $30.00, Cloth; 449 Pages

ISBN 0-262-06178-3

Review: This generalist's guide to the new science of mind offers an interdisciplinary tour of the recasting of the mind-body problem as recently envisaged by AI (Artificial Intelligence), artificial life, cognitive science, computer science, connectionist theory, ethnologh, evolutionary biology, mathematics, physics, neurophysiology, robotics, engineering, and philosophy. Franklin has written his work in an attempt to show lines of general convergence toward a new paradigm of mind. The book is an original work of scientific Synthesis written with enough precision as to be interesting to working scientists and with enough flare as to be accessible to the general reader without an inordinate technical capacity. Highly recommended.