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The capacity to think about our own thinking may lie at the heart of what it means to be both human and intelligent. Philosophers and cognitive scientists have investigated these matters for many years. Researchers in artificial intelligence have gone further, attempting to implement actual machines that mimic, simulate, and perhaps even replicate this capacity, called metareasoning. This book offers a variety of perspectives—drawn from philosophy, cognitive psychology, and computer science—on reasoning about the reasoning process. It offers a simple model of reasoning about reason as a framew ... More
Keywords: artificial intelligence, machines, metareasoning, introspective monitoring, cognitive psychology, computer science, reasoning process, reasoning about reason, metalevel control, computational activities
Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780262014809 |
Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: August 2013 | DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262014809.001.0001 |
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