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Kann man durch Sex mit Robotern betrügen?

Björn — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:00:11 +0000

Betrügt man seinen Partner, wenn man Sex mit einem Roboter hat? Dieses Video ist ein gutes Beispiel dafür, was Philosophie kann (und was dieser Witz von Elliott Sober treffend auf den Punkt bringt) – Gedankenexperimente:

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Gilbert Harman rezensiert Margaret A. Bodens “Mind as Machine”

Björn — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:36:37 +0000

Gilbert Harman (Princeton) rezensiert im American Scientist Margaret A. Bodens “Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science”:

“It is fortunate that Mind as Machine is highly readable, particularly because it contains 1,452 pages of text …” that “…weigh more than 7 pounds“:

“The first five chapters present the historical background of the field, delving into such topics as cybernetics and feedback, and discussing important figures such as René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Charles Babbage, Alan Turing and John von Neumann … Boden also goes into some detail about the situation in psychology and biology during the transition from behaviorism to cognitive science, which she characterizes as a revolution. The metaphor she employs is that of cognitive scientists entering the “house of Psychology,” whose lodgers at the time included behaviorists, Freudians, Gestalt psychologists, Piagetians, ethologists and personality theorists.“

In den folgenden 11 Kapiteln geht Boden auf alle wesentlichen Aspekte der Cognitive Science ein, computational psychology, psychology of language, anthropology, artificial intelligence, connectionist neural-nets, virtual-reality systems, computational and cognitive neuroscience, artificial life und so weiter.

“This is, as far as I know, the first full-scale history of cognitive science. … Future histories of the subject will have to build on this one.”

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Zelluläre Programme und Maschinen

Björn — Tue, 16 May 2006 08:18:52 +0000

Moshe Sippers Buch “Evolution of Parallel Cellular Machines: The Cellular Programming Approach” (Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1997) steht als PDF online zur Verfügung: “Employing simple yet versatile parallel cellular models, coupled with evolutionary computation techniques, this volume explores the issue of constructing man-made systems that exhibit characteristics such as those manifest by their natural counterparts. … This self-contained volume examines the behavior of such machines, the complex computation they exhibit, and the application of artificial evolution to attain such systems.”
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