Humanico plans to shut down Finland [Space] Station,
which will mean the end of the AL, the comp... more Humanico plans to shut down Finland [Space] Station, which will mean the end of the AL, the computing system, sensors, its manipulators, etc. and of Washoe Delta, a chimpanzee whose heart and circulatory system cannot function at Earth's surface. Goodman and Godwin represent Humanico and Washoe/AL, respectively.
This book casts the later Wittgenstein as the anomaly provider for the cognitive revolution given... more This book casts the later Wittgenstein as the anomaly provider for the cognitive revolution given positive impetus by Alan Turing, who provided the theoretical underpinnings of computability and its realization in building and programming digital electronic computers and, in his 1950 MIND paper, setting the agenda for artificial intelligence work. Noam Chomsky's work and many others came to make clear how arduous this agenda may be.
This book, published by St. Martins in 1975, is often listed as a standard introduction to Chomsk... more This book, published by St. Martins in 1975, is often listed as a standard introduction to Chomsky's linguistics and more general views.
Nature's experiments in isolation-the wild boy of Aveyron, Genie, their name is hardly legion-are... more Nature's experiments in isolation-the wild boy of Aveyron, Genie, their name is hardly legion-are by their nature illusive. Helen Keller, blind and deaf from her 18th month and isolated from language until well into her sixth year, presents a unique case in that every stage in her development was carefully recorded and she herself, graduate of Radcliffe College and author of 14 books, gave several careful and insightful accounts of her linguistic development and her cognitive and sensory situation. Perhaps because she is masked, and enshrined, in William Gibson's mythic and false Miracle worker, cognitive scientists have yet to come to terms with this richly enlightening, albeit anecdotal, resource. I
As is well known, Alan Turing drew a line, embodied in the "Turing test," between intellectual an... more As is well known, Alan Turing drew a line, embodied in the "Turing test," between intellectual and physical abilities, and hence between cognitive and natural sciences. Less familiarly, he proposed that one way to produce a "passer" would be to educate a "child machine," equating the experimenter's improvements in the initial structure of the child machine with genetic mutations, while supposing that the experimenter might achieve improvements more expeditiously than natural selection. On the other hand, in his foundational "On the chemical basis of morphogenesis, " Turing insisted that biological explanation clearly confine itself to purely physical and chemical means, eschewing vitalist and teleological talk entirely and hewing to D'Arcy Thompson's line that "evolutionary `explanations, "' are historical and narrative in character, employing the same intentional and teleological vocabulary we use in doing human history, and hence, while perhaps on occasion of heuristic value, are not part of biology as a natural science. To apply Turing's program to recent issues, the attempt to give foundations to the social and cognitive sciences in the "real science" of evolutionary biology (as opposed to Turing's biology) is neither to give foundations, nor to achieve the unification of the social/cognitive sciences and the natural sciences.
Humanico plans to shut down Finland [Space] Station,
which will mean the end of the AL, the comp... more Humanico plans to shut down Finland [Space] Station, which will mean the end of the AL, the computing system, sensors, its manipulators, etc. and of Washoe Delta, a chimpanzee whose heart and circulatory system cannot function at Earth's surface. Goodman and Godwin represent Humanico and Washoe/AL, respectively.
This book casts the later Wittgenstein as the anomaly provider for the cognitive revolution given... more This book casts the later Wittgenstein as the anomaly provider for the cognitive revolution given positive impetus by Alan Turing, who provided the theoretical underpinnings of computability and its realization in building and programming digital electronic computers and, in his 1950 MIND paper, setting the agenda for artificial intelligence work. Noam Chomsky's work and many others came to make clear how arduous this agenda may be.
This book, published by St. Martins in 1975, is often listed as a standard introduction to Chomsk... more This book, published by St. Martins in 1975, is often listed as a standard introduction to Chomsky's linguistics and more general views.
Nature's experiments in isolation-the wild boy of Aveyron, Genie, their name is hardly legion-are... more Nature's experiments in isolation-the wild boy of Aveyron, Genie, their name is hardly legion-are by their nature illusive. Helen Keller, blind and deaf from her 18th month and isolated from language until well into her sixth year, presents a unique case in that every stage in her development was carefully recorded and she herself, graduate of Radcliffe College and author of 14 books, gave several careful and insightful accounts of her linguistic development and her cognitive and sensory situation. Perhaps because she is masked, and enshrined, in William Gibson's mythic and false Miracle worker, cognitive scientists have yet to come to terms with this richly enlightening, albeit anecdotal, resource. I
As is well known, Alan Turing drew a line, embodied in the "Turing test," between intellectual an... more As is well known, Alan Turing drew a line, embodied in the "Turing test," between intellectual and physical abilities, and hence between cognitive and natural sciences. Less familiarly, he proposed that one way to produce a "passer" would be to educate a "child machine," equating the experimenter's improvements in the initial structure of the child machine with genetic mutations, while supposing that the experimenter might achieve improvements more expeditiously than natural selection. On the other hand, in his foundational "On the chemical basis of morphogenesis, " Turing insisted that biological explanation clearly confine itself to purely physical and chemical means, eschewing vitalist and teleological talk entirely and hewing to D'Arcy Thompson's line that "evolutionary `explanations, "' are historical and narrative in character, employing the same intentional and teleological vocabulary we use in doing human history, and hence, while perhaps on occasion of heuristic value, are not part of biology as a natural science. To apply Turing's program to recent issues, the attempt to give foundations to the social and cognitive sciences in the "real science" of evolutionary biology (as opposed to Turing's biology) is neither to give foundations, nor to achieve the unification of the social/cognitive sciences and the natural sciences.
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which will mean the end of the AL, the computing system,
sensors, its manipulators, etc. and of Washoe Delta, a
chimpanzee whose heart and circulatory system cannot
function at Earth's surface. Goodman and Godwin represent
Humanico and Washoe/AL, respectively.
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which will mean the end of the AL, the computing system,
sensors, its manipulators, etc. and of Washoe Delta, a
chimpanzee whose heart and circulatory system cannot
function at Earth's surface. Goodman and Godwin represent
Humanico and Washoe/AL, respectively.