Extending Mechanics to Minds
The Mechanical Foundations of Psychology and Economics
This book deploys the mathematical axioms of modern rational mechanics to understand minds as mechanical systems that exhibit actual, not metaphorical, forces, inertia, and motion. Using precise mental models developed in artificial intelligence the author analyzes motivation, attention, reasoning, learning, and communication in mechanical terms. These analyses provide psychology and economics with new characterizations of bounded rationality; provide mechanics with new types of materials exhibiting the constitutive kinematic and dynamic properties characteristic of different kinds of minds; and provide philosophy with a rigorous theory of hy…
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- ISBN: 978-0-511-21803-3
- EAN: 9780511218033
- Produktnummer: 13845012
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'184 KB
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