| Description |
vi, 579 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1.Between Conception and Transformation -- It is only what it does -- Functions and Multilevel Structural Constraints -- Functional Integration: Phases of Geist -- Self-Relation: A Function in Progress -- Self-Consciousness as Conception and Transformation in an Objective World -- A Series of Transformations -- History as the Elaboration of What it Means to Be an Artefact of the Concept -- A Note on Theory, Mind's Structuring Function, and Ratiocinating Powers -- Selves as Functional Items as Artefacts of Mind -- The Sapience Controversy -- Rational Integration, Judgement, and Generation of Further Abilities -- Historical Awareness as an Essential Constructive and Critical Ability -- The Dasein of Geist -- The Necessary and Sufficient Links Between Conception and Transformation -- Geist at the Edge of Intelligibility -- 2.An Outside View of Ourselves as Experimental AGI (Problems, Concepts, and Models) -- Climbing with Language -- |
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Contents note continued: Beyond Extreme Scenarios -- Hard vs. Soft Parochialism -- An Outside View of Ourselves as a Toy Model AGI -- Formalizing a Big Toy Universe -- 3.This I, or We or It, the Thing, Which Speaks (Forms of Intuition) -- The Toy Universe of an Embodied Automaton -- The Virtuous Circle of Analogy -- The Automaton's Story, a Thought Experiment -- Constructing a Lego Model in the Style of Kant's Threefold Synthesis -- A Digression On Modelling Figurative Syntheses -- Seeing With the Automaton -- Getting Stuff in Perspective -- The Automaton's Temporal Perspectival Awareness -- Time and Memory -- 4.Some Unsettling Kantian News, as Delivered by Boltzmann (An Excursion into Time) -- Freezing the Flux -- Boltzmann's Copernican Shakedown of the Time-Conscious Subject -- Inductive Dogmas and Cognitive Biases of Time-Asymmetry -- What Now? -- Meta-physics of Time as Logic of Spirit -- Time, Reality, and The View From Nowhen -- |
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Contents note continued: 5.This I, or We or It, the Thing, Which Speaks (Objectivity and Thought) -- Ascent to the Infantile -- Infant AGI -- As If Raising a Child -- Global Pedagogical Project -- 6.This I, or We or It, the Thing, Which Speaks (Dasein of Geist) -- Realization of Language -- Pictures, Signs and Symbols -- Sign-Vehicles and Symbol-Design -- An Acoustic Experiment in the Production of Symbols -- Generative Processes and The Hierarchy of Syntactic Complexity -- Base Syntactic Abilities -- 7.This I, or We or It, the Thing, Which Speaks (Language as Interaction as Computation) -- The Pragmatic Interface -- Enter the Copycat: Interaction as Game as Computation -- From Semantics of Interaction to Interaction as the Game of Semantics -- Keep it in Focus: A Dialogue in Eight Acts -- Formalism and the Pure Autonomy of the Formal -- Logic as an Organon and as Worldbuilding -- Dogmas of the Experiential -- Upward to the Semantic Heavens -- Machines Unboxed -- |
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Contents note continued: 8.Philosophy of Intelligence -- Datum 1 We Exercise -- Datum 2 Philosophy, the Way of Worldbuilding -- Datum 3 Actualizing the Possibility of Thinking -- Datum 4 Navigating Thought's Ramified Paths -- Datum 5 Thought and the Artefact -- Datum 6 Philosophy as an Archimedean Lever for Lifting Intelligence and Moving the World -- Datum 7 Crafting the Ultimate Form -- Datum 8 The Yearning for the Better -- Datum 9 Intelligence as Risk and Time -- Datum 10 A View from Nowhere and Nowhen, or Philosophy as Intelligence and Time -- Appendix: Quandaries of Induction in Philosophy of Knowledge, Philosophy of Mind, and Artificial Intelligence -- A Humean Provocation -- Uniformity, Regularity, and Memory -- The Dissolution of Hume's Problem and Its Rebirth -- Bluffing Your Way Through Simplicity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-564) and indexes |
| Subject |
Artificial intelligence -- Philosophy.
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| ISBN |
9780997567403 (paperback) |
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0997567406 (paperback) |
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