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The philosophical computer : exploratory essays in philosophical computer modeling / Patrick Grim, Gary Mar, and Paul St. Denis, with the Group for Logic and Formal Semantics. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grim, Patrick.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy--Computer simulation.
- Philosophy.
- Logic--Computer simulation.
- Logic.
- Philosophy--Data processing.
- Logic--Data processing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 321 p. ) ill. ; 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- From the bivalent liar to dynamical semantics
- The simple liar in infinite-valued logic
- Some quasi-paradoxical sentences
- The chaotic and logistic Liars
- Chaotic dualists and strange attractors
- Fractals in the semantics of paradox
- The triplist and three-dimensional attractors
- Philosophical and metalogical applications
- Toward a simple model: some basic concepts
- Self-reference and reputation: the simplest cases
- Epistemic dynamics with multiple inputs
- Tangled reference to reputation.
- The example of tic-tac-toe
- 'Rug' enumeration images
- Tautology fractals
- The Sierpinski triangle: a paradoxical introduction
- A Sierpinski tautology map
- Value solids and multi-valued logics
- Cellular automata in value space
- The prisoner's dilemma
- Classical strategies in iteration
- Generosity in an imperfect world
- Spatialization of the prisoner's dilemma
- A note on some deeper strategies
- Greater generosity in an imperfect spatial world.
- Real life
- Chaotic currents in real life
- Real-valued prisoner's dilemmas
- PAVLOV and other two-dimensional strategies
- Cooperative chaos in infinite-valued logic
- The problem of discrimination
- Continuity in cooperation, the 'veil of ignorance', and forgiveness
- Undecidability and the prisoner's dilemma
- Two abstract machines
- Computation and undecidability in competitive cellular automata
- Computation and undecidability in the spatialized prisoner's dilemma.
- Notes:
- "A Bradford book."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-318) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-27433-7
- 0-585-03687-X
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