Today I (Meditya) presented a Herbert A. Simon's Paper entitled "Machine as Mind" appeared in "Android Epistemology" by C.Glymour, K.Ford, and P.Hayes.
Defining that the primitives of mind consist of, Symbols, Complex Structures of Symbols, and Processes that Operate on Symbols (Newell & Simon, 1976), the central thesis of his writings states, "Conventional computers can be, and have been programmed to represent symbol structures and carry out processes on those structures in a manner that parallels, step by step, the way human brain does it.".
In his writings he (Simon) basically argued that every angle of human mind is translable into definable representations, and the definition can be translated and embedded to a thinking machine. In order to defend his thesis, he explained several important points of disscussion such as:
- The Concept of Decomposable System
- Two Approaches of Artificial Intelligence (humanoid and non humanoid)
- The Concept of Mind from Psychological Perspective
- Selective Heuristic Search
- Recognition: The Indexed Memory
- Seriality: The Limits of Attention (short term memory)
- The Architecture of Expert System
In addition he also responded and defended his thesis to the disputes that people usually have regarding the angle of thinking that machine could not copy such as:
- Semantics
- Intention
- "Ill Structured" Tasks
- Language Processing
- Intuition
- Insight
- Creativity
At the end of this meeting we have a nice discussion about the state of the art of this writing (1995) and the condition that is happening now, and the extent of the applicability of the Simon's vision in the present and the future.
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