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On Intelligence (平装)
by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
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Artificial Intelligence (AI), Science, Non-fiction |
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| MSL Pointer Review:
This mind expanding book delivers a new and compelling theory of intelligence, brain function, and the future of intelligent machines. |
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Hannon (MSL quote), Ireland
<2006-12-30 00:00>
I have a casual interest in the topics discussed in this book. One of the first books I read on this was by Ray Kurzweil, while interesting it kind of leaves you none the wiser on the way technology\computing\machines will progress in the long term. I say that simply because I expected Rays book to conclude the way it did.
However Jeff’s book here is really a brilliant book, it gave me a totally new perspective on intelligent machines, what it means to be intelligent and how human intelligence works. Its a simple theory which I think makes sense, simple theories are usual correct.
Jeff also has a great style of writing which allows non-scientific people like myself to understand what he is trying to explain. There is one fairly detailed chapter which I skipped over as it was a little too scientific for me but its not important in order to understand his points at a higher level.
Highly recommended book. I would to see Ray Kurzweil and Jeff Hawkins discuss their two points of views sometime (there are overlaps in their views but they differ on some things). |
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Sean O'Reilly (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-30 00:00>
The question arises: why would the brain build models of anything? It doesn't matter whether it is a memory and prediction machine or a sausage maker. Efficient causality is not formal causality. I can describe the factory process (the efficient cause) of production of a Ford perfectly but the formal cause - the organization that builds the cars is indispensable. The efficient cause of production would cease without the formal cause ascribed to the corporation. Describing what something does or its efficient causality of operation without tying it to some sort of formal causal identity or a mechanism that doesn't arise all by itself is reductionism. Hawkins describes the process of how it may do some of what it does but he himself admits that the origin of invariant representation (what Plato and Aristotle called Form) is the greatest unsolved question of them all. The goal of all reductionism, as a philosophy, is to show that complex things somehow just are - there is no cause--outside of a self generating web of efficient causes - and reductionists don't want there to be any causes because if there are causes, there are makers. They are all looking for the machine that makes itself - and there isn't any such animal. It is all really very funny. These people are all looking for a causeless cause found in the material world--something a little lower than the God of the philosophers and certainly not the God of Christianity.
Wilhelmson, one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century described knowing the form of a thing as "becoming the form itself on the plane of the act of knowledge." You know what you know because you become it - you don't know it because the brain is merely mocking up a series of impressions like a camera and feeding them to your sensorium. The whole question of invariant representation without a discussion of previous epistemologies that have attempted to address the issue is sophomoric. Hawkins, like many people thinks that because he has a new take on something that no one has thought about it before. |
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