Extending Mechanics to Minds: The Mechanical Foundations of Psychology and Economics

Extending Mechanics to Minds: The Mechanical Foundations of Psychology and Economics
Автор
 
Год
 
Страниц
 
476
ISBN
 
0521861977
Издатель
 
Машиностроение
Категория
 
Разное

Содержание:

Том 1, Том 2

Описание:

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 hybrid systems combining discrete and continuous mechanical quantities. The resulting mechanical reintegration of the physical sciences that characterize human bodies and the mental sciences that characterize human minds opens traditional philosophical and modern computational questions to new paths of technical analysis.

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