Steps Toward the Synthetic Method: Symbolic Information Processing and Self-Organizing Systems in Early Artificial Intelligence Modeling
Steps Toward the Synthetic Method: Symbolic Information Processing and Self-Organizing Systems in Early Artificial Intelligence Modeling
This chapter focuses on two theories of human cognitive processes developed in the context of cybernetics and early artificial intelligence (AI). The first theory is that of the cyberneticist Donald MacKay, in the framework of an original version of self-organizing systems; the second is that of Allen Newell and Herbert Simon, and is known as information-processing psychology (IPP). The latter represents the human-oriented tendency of early AI, in which the three authors were pioneers.
Keywords: human cognitive process, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, Donald MacKay, self-organizing systems, Allen Newell, Herbert Simon, information-processing psychology
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