| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 148 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Preliminaries : from babble to barter -- From vehicles to anigrafs -- Intrinsic knowledge -- Social connections: bartering -- Anigraf abstraction -- Animacy [action-agents] -- Anigraf1 : simple precursors -- Anigraf2 : swimmers : beginning to move -- Anigraf3: walkers : syncopated limbs -- Anigraf4: tally machines -- Cognition : agents with beliefs -- Anigraf5: dancers : mating games -- Anigraf6: planners : event sequencing -- Anigraf7: explorers : new worlds -- Anigraf8: alliances : coordinating diversity -- Metagrafs -- Representational forms -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Appendix : phase plots -- Glossary -- Index |
| Summary |
"In this book, Whitman Richards offers a novel and provocative proposal for understanding decision making and human behavior. Building on Valentino Braitenberg's famous 'vehicles, ' Richards describes a collection of mental organisms that he calls 'daemons'--virtual correlates of neural modules. Daemons have favored choices and make decisions that control behaviors of the group to which they belong, with each daemon preferring a different outcome. Richards arranges these preferences in graphs, linking similar choices, which thus reinforce each other. 'Anigrafs' refers to these two components--animals, or the mental organisms (agents or daemons), and the graphs that show similarity relations. Together these two components are the basis of a new cognitive architecture. In Richards's account, a collection of daemons compete for control of the cognitive system in which they reside; the challenge is to get the daemons to agree on one of many choices. Richards explores the results of group decisions, emphasizing the Condorcet voting procedure for aggregating preferences. A neural mechanism is proposed. Anigrafs presents a series of group decisions that incorporate simple and complex movements, as well as aspects of cognition and belief. Anigrafs concludes with a section on 'metagrafs, ' which chart relationships between different anigraf models"--MIT CogNet |
| Analysis |
COMPUTER SCIENCE/Artificial Intelligence |
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COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-134) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cognition.
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Group decision making.
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Artificial intelligence.
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Human information processing.
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Thought and thinking.
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Social psychology.
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Decision making.
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Mathematical models.
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Social groups.
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Psychological Phenomena and Processes
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Psychological Phenomena
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Mental Processes
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Investigative Techniques
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Computing Methodologies
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Thinking
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Psychology, Social
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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
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Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
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Information Science
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Psychiatry and Psychology
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Decision Making
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Artificial Intelligence
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Cognition
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Models, Theoretical
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Group Processes
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cognition.
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artificial intelligence.
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thinking.
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social psychology.
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decision making.
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mathematical models.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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Thought and thinking
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Social psychology
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Social groups
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Mathematical models
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Human information processing
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Decision making
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Artificial intelligence
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Cognition
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Group decision making
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0262329115 |
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9780262329118 |
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