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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

1. Insight and Reason

Author : Tom Addis

Published in: Natural and Artificial Reasoning

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

One way of understanding a natural process or mechanism is to build a working model and then see if the model has some of the behavior or features of the observed phenomenon. In this book I will describe an attempt at understand the nature of people through computer modeling. It is hoped that this understanding will lead to the possibility of increasing our abilities through artificial mechanisms.

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Metadata
Title
Insight and Reason
Author
Tom Addis
Copyright Year
2014
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11286-2_1

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