Publisher's Synopsis
The book review column in "Artificial Intelligence" has evolved from simple reviews to a forum where reviewers and authors debate current, often competing, theories of human and artificial intelligence. "Contemplating Minds" brings together a selection of these reviews in a form suitable for the general scientific reader, seminar organizer or student wanting a critical introduction that synthesizes and compares some of the most important and influential books and ideas to have emerged in AI over the past decade.;"Contemplating Minds" is divided into four parts, each with a brief introduction, that address the major themes in artificial intelligence, human intelligence and cognitive science research: symbolic models of mind, situated action, architectures of interaction, and memory and consciousness.
