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"People sometimes ask me what they should read to find out about artificial intelligence. Herbert Simon's book The Sciences of the Artificial is always on the list I give them. Every page issues a challenge to conventional thinking, and the layman who digests it well will certainly understand what the field of artificial intelligence hopes to accomplish. I recommend it in the same spirit that I recommend Freud to people who ask about psychoanalysis, or Piaget to those who ask about child psychology: If you want to learn about a subject, start by reading its founding fathers." --George A. Miller, Complex Information Processing
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Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science of design, this new edition of Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence adds a chapter that sorts out the current themes and tools -- chaos, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms -- for analyzing complexity and complex systems.There are updates throughout the book as well. These take into account important advances in cognitive psychology and the science of design while confirming and extending the book's basic thesis: that a physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for intelligent action. The chapter "Economic Reality" has also been revised to reflect a change in emphasis in Simon's thinking about the respective roles of organizations and markets in economic systems.
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An idol for scientists,
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A real must for scientists. In this book Simon sets the standard of the sector and confirms himself as the father of artificial intelligence.
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Philosophical, interdisciplinary perspectives of human being,
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Explores economics, management, computer science, psychology and phylosophy to understand human being and artifacts, the work of human being. Ideas presented are highly philosophical but widely applicable to the real world, especially when designing organization or large projects.
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Are you altruistic and docile?,
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Simon sheds light on the positive aspect of our bounded rationality from a biological analogy, in which, because of our bounded rationality, and because we can therefore greatly enhance our limited knowledge and skill by accepting information and advice from the social groups to which we belong, individuals who are docile Ewho tend to accept such information and advice Ehave a great advantage in fitness. The altruistic individual will be fitter than non-docile individual, enabling the former to more increase its capabilities for specialisation and division of work, to finally adjust themselves to achieve the desired purpose. It may be true that the altruism is an important factor in the efficacy of organizations and institutions. However, how many trials and errors will it need for us to evolve or have mutations to be so docile or altruistic? This book gives us a great hint.
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