The society of mind
SOAR: an architecture for general intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Connectionism and cognitive architecture: a critical analysis
Connections and symbols
Making a mind versus modeling the brain: aritifical intelligence back at a branchpoint
The artificial intelligence debate: false starts, real foundations
A robot that walks: emergent behaviors
Artificial intelligence at MIT
Pengi: an implementation of a theory of activity
Computation & intelligence
Computer science as empirical inquiry: symbols and search
Communications of the ACM
Knowledge Growth in an Artificial Animal
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Genetic Algorithms
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This book is primarily an exposition of theories of mind and of recent attempts to invent artificial minds. It reviews a large body of work in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), artificial life, cognitive science, and neuroscience. It is also informed by work in philosophy and in biology, especially neuroscience and the study of animal behavior. The author's own view of the nature of mind emerges largely through his assessments of the various theories he presents. He believes that recent research is leading toward a "new paradigm of mind" (p. 421), a viewpoint which will be appraised later in this review. Franklin writes with a clear and pleasant style, and his expository descriptions are aimed at a broad audience. The reader should have some general mathematical and scientific knowledge, including the basic ideas of how computers and programming languages work, but otherwise no special technical background is required. The level of difficulty of the book is a little higher than that of a Scientific American article.