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Oswald Wiener's Theory of Thought : Conversations and Essays on Fundamental Issues in Cognitive Science.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Eder, Thomas.
Contributor:
Raab, Thomas.
Schwarz, Michael.
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource (304 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023.
Summary:
As a versatile and creative thinker, Oswald Wiener (1935—2021) developed from an artist into a researcher out of sheer necessity. At the end of his life he emphasized: ”I do not aim at a synthesis of introspection and automata theory but rather at contrasting them. Which relationships identified in introspection can — in a fairly satisfactory way — be understood as realizations of relationships within a formal system, e.g., the formal system of automata theory. Or the other way around: How well does automata theory as a model (i.e., the computer as mental metaphor, 'Physical Symbol Systems,' today's Artificial Intelligence .) capture essential features of human thought? What does 'in a fairly satisfactory way' mean in this context? What, and how strongly, does the formal system abstract from natural processes?“ In this book, three conversations with Wiener about the development of his theory and four essays introduce and elaborate on this new ap proach to the theory of thought, which has previously received too little attention in academic discourse. A pivotal role is played by Wiener's last major essay ”Cybernetics and Ghosts.“
Aus der Kunst kommend und notgedrungen zum Forscher geworden, hob der vielseitig schaffende Oswald Wiener (1935—2021) in seiner Denkpsychologie hervor: „Eine Synthese von Selbstbeobachtung und Automatentheorie strebe ich nicht an. Es geht vielmehr um eine Gegenüberstellung: Was an den in der Selbstbeobachtung aufgefaßten Zusammenhängen läßt sich auf einigermaßen befriedigende Weise als eine Realisierung von Zusammenhängen innerhalb eines formalen Systems, z. B. des formalen Systems Automatentheorie auffassen. Oder umgekehrt: Wie gut erfaßt das Modell Automatentheorie (Computer-Metapher, ,Physical Symbol System', künstliche Intelligenz auf dem heutigen Stand .) wesentliche Züge des menschlichen Denkens? Was würde hier als eine ,einigermaßen befriedigende Weise' gelten? Wie sehr und was abstrahiert das formale System?“ Drei Gespräche mit Wiener über die historische Theorieentwicklung und vier Essays in diesem Buch sollen diesen neuen und bislang zu wenig im akademischen Diskurs beachteten Ansatz der Denktheorie ein- und fortführen. Angelpunkt der Überlegungen ist Wieners letzter großer Aufsatz „Kybernetik und Gespenster“.
Contents:
Intro
Contents
Preface
Conversations
Literature, Language, Thought: The Beginnings
From Machines to the Psychology of Thought
Pleomorphism in Thought and the Computational Metaphor Seed, Symbol, and the "Grounding Problem"
Essays
Cybernetics and Ghosts. In the No-Man's-Land between Science and Art
Cognitive Symbols: From Ontogeny to Their Actual Genesis. A Psychogenesis Based on James Mark Baldwin and Jean Piaget
Reciting "Timidity". Remarks on the Memorization of Speech Events Using the Example of an Ode by Friedrich Hölderlin
Fantasy, Repression, and Motivation in an Ecological Model of Memory.
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ISBN:
9783110662894
3110662892
OCLC:
1390562465

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