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050 0 0 _aTA350
_b.D69 2006
082 0 0 _a006.3
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100 1 _aDoyle, Jon,
_d1954-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aExtending mechanics to minds :
_bthe mechanical foundations of psychology and economics /
_cJon Doyle.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2006.
300 _a1 online resource (xxi, 453 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505 0 _aReconciling natural and mental philosophy -- Reconstructing rational mechanics -- Mechanical minds -- The metaphysics of mechanics -- Conclusion of the matter.
520 _aThis book deploys the mathematical axioms of modern rational mechanics to understand minds as mechanical systems that exhibit actual, not metaphorical, forces, inertia, and motion. Using precise mental models developed in artificial intelligence the author analyzes motivation, attention, reasoning, learning, and communication in mechanical terms. These analyses provide psychology and economics with new characterizations of bounded rationality; provide mechanics with new types of materials exhibiting the constitutive kinematic and dynamic properties characteristic of different kinds of minds; and provide philosophy with a rigorous theory of hybrid systems combining discrete and continuous mechanical quantities. The resulting mechanical reintegration of the physical sciences that characterize human bodies and the mental sciences that characterize human minds opens traditional philosophical and modern computational questions to new paths of technical analysis.
650 0 _aMechanics, Applied
_xMathematics.
650 0 _aArtificial intelligence.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521861977
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511546952
999 _c522019
_d522017