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9781350482562
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Rethinking Cognitive Computation explores the hypothesis that the mind is a computer. The exploration is based on the pioneering work of Alan Turing and presents the first detailed exposition of his theory of computation intended specifically for psychologists. Turing's bold and beautiful theory provides an ideal perspective from which to evaluate current computational thinking about the mind. The book examines the strengths and weaknesses of symbol systems and connectionist theorising and proposes a new approach called ecological functionalism. Ecological functionalism is based on Turing's fundamental insights and extends them by drawing on contemporary theories of concurrent and distributed computation to cover a wide range of psychological domains. Ecological functionalism provides the basis for a powerful, unified theory of great scope which includes social as well as individual processes. The book is intended for teaching but will also be of interest to researchers in cognitive science, psychology and philosophy of mind. Andrew Wells is a lecturer in psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has qualifications in philosophy, psychology and computer science and has published papers on a range of psychological topics
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Introduction Making the Modern Mind Functional States and Mini-minds Exploring Sets of Mini-minds Environments and Actions Turing's Analysis of Computation Turing's Example Machines Turing's Functional Notation Standard Descriptions and Description Numbers Basic Components of the Universal Machine Simulation The Universal Machine in Detail Turing's Unsolvability Proofs Von Neumann Computer Architecture Virtual Architecture The Commitments of the Computational Theory of Mind Evaluating the Computational Theory of Mind Connectionism Ecological Functionalism: Computation Ecological Functionalism: Psychology References.
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Circle-free and circular machines -- Organization of the tape: F-squares and E-squares -- Turing's first machine: TM1 -- Turing's second machine: TM2 -- 8. Turing's Functional Notation -- Skeleton tables and m-functions -- Building composite m-functions by linking -- Defining m-functions in terms of other m-functions -- 9. Standard Descriptions and Description Numbers -- Introduction -- How many Turing machines are there? -- Standard descriptions -- Description numbers -- 10. Basic Components of the Universal Machine -- Introduction -- The rightmost symbol finder -- Printing figures
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Complete configurations and traces of behaviour -- Configuration-governed and rule-governed behaviour -- A further example -- Memory in mini-minds -- Counting situated mini-minds -- Summary -- Appendix 5.1 Answers to sheep and dog exercises -- 6. Turing's Analysis of Computation -- Introduction -- Terminology -- The scope of Turing's analysis -- Derivation of the machine model -- The construction of a machine to do the work of a computant -- 7. Turing's Example Machines -- m-configurations, configurations and complete configurations -- Infinite tapes -- Symbols of the first and second kinds
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Deterministic and non-deterministic models -- Description numbers -- Logical possibility and psychological plausibility -- Counting mini-minds -- Four-state mini-minds -- Plausibility constraints: selecting subsets of mini-minds -- Appendix 4.1 Binary to decimal and decimal to binary conversion -- Appendix 4.2 Thirty-six four-state, two-input mini-minds -- 5. Environments and Actions -- Introduction -- Specifying places -- Places and objects -- Linear environments -- Situated mini-minds -- Getting inside a mini-mind -- The first sheep and dogs Turing machine
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John von Neumann: computer architecture -- Donald Hebb: the neuropsychology of learning -- Miller, Galanter and Pribram: plans -- Newell and Simon: physical symbol systems -- Rumelhart and McClelland: PDP -- The current situation -- 3. Functional States and Mini-minds -- Introduction -- Functional states and processes -- Computing numbers -- Functional states and everyday processes -- Functional and physical analysis -- Representing happiness and sadness -- Mini-minds -- 4. Exploring Sets of Mini-minds -- Configurations -- Instructions and machine tables
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ISBN 9781137066619
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ISBN 9781403911612
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ISBN 9781403911629
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wells, Andy Rethinking Cognitive Computation London : Macmillan Education UK,c2005 ISBN 9781403911612
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-137-06661-9
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