How to Build a Person: A Prolegomenon

by John L. Pollock

Book Overview

Building a person has been an elusive goal in artificial intelligence. This failure, John Pollock argues, is because the problems involved are essentially philosophical; what is needed for the construction of a person is a physical system that mimics human rationality. Pollock describes an exciting theory of rationality and its partial implementation in OSCAR, a computer system whose descendants will literally be persons. In developing the philosophical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262161133
• ISBN13: 9780262161138
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"