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   From: gmsizemore2@yahoo.com   
      
   "PeiWang"  wrote in message   
   news:45317299$1@news.unimelb.edu.au...   
   > New Book Announcement [apologies for cross-posting]   
   >   
   > Rigid Flexibility: The Logic of Intelligence   
   > by Pei Wang   
   > Springer, October 2006, ISBN: 1402050445   
   >   
   > This book provides the blueprint of a thinking machine.   
   >   
   > While most of the current works in Artificial Intelligence   
   > (AI) focus on individual aspects of intelligence and   
   > cognition, the project described in this book, Non-Axiomatic   
   > Reasoning System (NARS), is designed and developed to attack   
   > the AI problem as a whole.   
   >   
   > This project is based on the belief that what we call   
   > "intelligence" can be understood and reproduced as "the   
   > capability of a system to adapt to its environment while   
   > working with insufficient knowledge and resources". According   
   > to this idea, a novel reasoning system is designed, which   
   > challenges all the dominating theories in how such a system   
   > should be built. The system carries out reasoning, learning,   
   > categorizing, planning, decision making, etc., as different   
   > facets of the same underlying process.   
      
   Sorry, but this unification has already been suggested by a philosophy known   
   as radical behaviorism. See Skinner (1938, 1945, 1953, 1957, 1960, etc. etc.   
   etc. etc. etc.).   
      
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