Studies in Cognitive Systems

People Harness Hypercomputation, and More

By: Selmer Bringsjord, M. Zenzen

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Hardcover | 31 March 2003

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This is the first book-length presentation and defense of a new theory of human and machine cognition, according to which human persons are superminds. Superminds are capable of processing information not only at and below the level of Turing machines (standard computers), but above that level (the "Turing Limit"), as information processing devices that have not yet been (and perhaps can never be) built, but have been mathematically specified; these devices are known as super-Turing machines or hypercomputers. Superminds, as explained herein, also have properties no machine, whether above or below the Turing Limit, can have. The present book is the third and pivotal volume in Bringsjord's supermind quartet; the first two books were What Robots Can and Can't Be (Kluwer) and AI and Literary Creativity (Lawrence Erlbaum). The final chapter of this book offers eight prescriptions for the concrete practice of AI and cognitive science in light of the fact that we are superminds.

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From the reviews: "This book is part of a series that aims at exploring all kinds of knowledge, information and data processing systems. It is especially interesting because it deals with the often sharply discussed question of the relation of 'human' and 'Artificial Intelligence'. ! This book and the whole series will cause a lot of discussions, and this will make the book very interesting. ! A very interesting book that can be recommended to everybody who is interested in the relation between human mind and computer intelligence." (Christian Posthoff, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1046 (21), 2004)

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Non-Fiction Philosophy Philosophy of The Mind Computing & I.T.Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Science Science in General Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology Philosophy & Logic

List of Tables
List of Figures
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Preface
What is Supermentalism?
A Refutation of Penrose's Godelian Case
The Argument from Infinity Reasoning
Supermentalism and the Fall of Church's Thesis
The Zombie Attack on Computationalism
The Argument from Irreversibility
What are We? Where'd We Come From?
Supermentalism and the Practice of AI
Bibliography
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Studies in Cognitive Systems

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