Section 30.6 of SoM discusses why the idea of free will seems so powerful. There are many more ideas about this in Daniel Dennett’s 1984 book, Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting, ISBN 0262540428.
Section 30.6 of SoM discusses why the idea of free will seems so powerful. There are many more ideas about this in Daniel Dennett’s 1984 book, Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting, ISBN 0262540428.
See the book, Computers and Thought for some of the accomplishments of that period.
Evans, Thomas G. (1963) A Heuristic Program to Solve Geometric-Analogy Problems, abridged version in Minsky (ed) Semantic Information Processing, MIT Press 1968, pp. 271-353.
Aristotle, On the Soul, Book I, Part 1.
Richard P. Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 1965. ISBN 0262560038, p168.
Antonio R. Damasio, Descartes’ Error, Avon Books, Nov 1995, ISBN: 0380726475
[A system would also face similar problem if several Selectors were turned on at once? Refer to §Currencies.]
At the lowest levels, the Critics and Selectors become the same as the Ifs and Thens of simple reactions. At the reflective and higher levels, the Critics will tend to engage so many resources that they can’t be distinguished from Ways to Think. In his essay, “Reflective Critics,” Push Singh discusses Critics with such abilities. See http://web.media.mit.edu/~push/ReflectiveCritics.pdf
Logic can be useful after a problem is solved, for making credit assignments [§8.5] and for solving simplified versions of problems. See §§Logic.
There is an excellent survey of attempts to classify Problem-Types on Manuela Viezzer’s webpage at www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mxv/p ublications/onto_engineering. One such attempt was made in a rule- based theory of thinking called SOAR. There, obstacles were called ‘impasses’ and were classified into just four types: (1) no rules apply to the situation, (2) several rules match, but there is no higher-level rules to choose among them, (3) there are several such rules but they conflict, and, (4) all such rules have met with failure. For more about Soar, See http://tip.psychology.org/newell.html
Reference to Push Singh’s paper on “Reflective Critics.”
Principles of Psychology. Chap. 25 p452
