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Author McClintock, A. E. (Alexander E.)

Title The convergence of machine and human nature : a critique of the computer metaphor of mind and artificial intelligence / Alexander McClintock
Published Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Avebury, [1995]
©1995

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Description vi, 147 pages ; 22 cm
Series Avebury series in philosophy
Avebury series in philosophy.
Contents 1. Philosophical attitudes and artificial intelligence -- 2. A review of the work of Putnam, Dennett, Fodor, Pylyshyn, and Pollock -- 3. A critique of the concepts of process and representation as used in the computer metaphor -- 4. An analysis of the conceptual connections of some common concepts to the human body form -- 5. An analysis of some necessary conditions for the ascription of some mental attributes -- 6. Emotions, angels, and extra-terrestrials -- 7. Some limits to functionalist accounts of persons
Analysis Artificial intelligence
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-140) and index
Subject Artificial intelligence -- Philosophy.
Computational intelligence.
Human-computer interaction.
Machine theory.
LC no. 94079818
ISBN 1856289974