Simulating the Mind

A Technical Neuropsychoanalytical Approach

By: Dietmar Dietrich (Editor), Georg Fodor (Editor), Gerhard Zucker (Editor)

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Can psychoanalysis offer a new computer model? Can computer designers help psychoanalysts to understand their theory better?In contemporary publications human psyche is often related to neural networks. Why? The wiring in computers can also be related to application software. But does this really make sense?

Artificial Intelligence has tried to implement functions of human psyche. The reached achievements are remarkable; however, the goal to get a functional model of the mental apparatus was not reached. Was the selected direction incorrect?The editors are convinced: yes, and they try to give answers here. If one accepts that the brain is an information processing system, then one also has to accept that computer theories can be applied to the brain's functions, the human mental apparatus.

The contributors of this book - Solms, Panksepp, Sloman and many others who are all experts in computer design, psychoanalysis and neurology are united in one goal: finding synergy in their interdisciplinary fields.

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Theory	p. 1
The Vision	p. 2
Basics	p. 7
Introduction to Automation	p. 7
Introduction to Psychoanalysis	p. 12
Psychoanalysis, a Natural Science?	p. 17
Neuropsychoanalysis	p. 21
Realizing Psychic Functions in a Machine	p. 32
Automation as the Challenge for Psychoanalysis	p. 35
Two Different Sciences - two Different Languages	p. 36
Model	p. 37
Modeling a Decision Unit for Autonomous Agents	p. 37
Perception in Automation	p. 42
Towards the new ARS-PA Model	p. 46
The New Model and its Description: Top-Down-Design	p. 53
Implementation and Application	p. 64
Differentiation between Modeling and Implementation	p. 64
The Bubble-World	p. 65
Applying the Model	p. 67
Possible Future Benefits for the Humanities	p. 69
References	p. 71
Proceedings of Emulating the Mind (ENF 2007)	p. 75
Session 1	p. 76
A Brief Overview of Artificial Intelligence Focusing on Computational Models of Emotions	p. 76
Considering a Technical Realization of a Neuropsychoanalytical Model of the Mind - A Theoretical Framework	p. 99
What is the "Mind"? A Neuro-Psychoanalytical Approach	p. 115
Discussion Chaired by Authors	p. 123
Session 2	p. 124
Machines in the Ghost	p. 124
Simulating the Primal Affective Mentalities of the Mammalian Brain: A Fugue on the Emotional Feelings of Mental Life and Implications for AI-Robotics	p. 149
Discussion Chaired by Authors	p. 177
Session 3	p. 178
Cognitive and Affective Automation: Machines Using the Psychoanalytic Model of the Human Mind	p. 178
Issues at the Interface of Artificial Intelligence and Psychoanalysis: Emotion, Consciousness, Transference	p. 227
Discussion Chaired by Authors	p. 237
Session 4	p. 239
The Prometheus Phantasy - Functions of the Human Psyche for Technical Systems	p. 239
Return of the Zombie - Neuropsychoanalysis, Consciousness, and the Engineering of Psychic Functions	p. 251
Discussion Chaired by Authors	p. 259
Discussion Sessions	p. 260
Psychoanalysis and Computer Engineering	p. 260
The Mammal in the Machine	p. 262
The Remembering Body	p. 264
Emotions, Drives and Desire (Silicone in Love)	p. 266
Getting A Grasp	p. 268
Free Will	p. 271
Responses to the ENF 2007	p. 274
Introductory Words	p. 275
Collected Papers	p. 277
A Computational Model of Affects	p. 277
The Physics of Thoughts	p. 290
A Functional View on "Cognitive" Perceptual Systems Based on Functions and Principles of the Human Mind	p. 302
Four Laws of Machine Psychodynamics	p. 320
Artificial Group Mind, a Psychoanalytically Founded Thought Experiment	p. 332
Artificial Group Psychodynamics: Emergence of the Collective	p. 347
A Primer of Psychoanalysis for Alan Turing	p. 367
Alexander R. Luria and the Theory of Functional Systems	p. 381
A Mind for Resolving the Interior-Exterior Distinctions	p. 394
The Vision, Revisited	p. 399
Explanations for Engineers and Psychoanalysts	p. 416
Abbreviations	p. 430
Index	p. 432
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