creators_name: Clancey, W J.
type: journalp
datestamp: 1998-06-24
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:49
metadata_visibility: show
title: The biology of consciousness: Comparative review of Israel Rosenfield, The Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten: An anatomy of Consciousness and Gerald M. Edelman, Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
subjects: comp-sci-neural-nets
subjects: dev-psy
subjects: neuro-psy
subjects: phil-epist
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
keywords: Consciousness, Neuropsychological dysfuntions, neural nets, situation cognition
abstract: For many years, most AI researchers and cognitive scientists have reserved the topic of consciousness for after dinner conversation. Like "intuition," the idea of consciousness appeared to be too vague or general to be a good starting place for understanding cognition. Work on narrowly-defined problems in specialized domains such as medicine and manufacturing focused our concerns on the nature of representation, memory, strategies for problem-solving, and learning. Some writers, notably Ornstein(1972) and Hofstadter (1979), continued to explore the ideas, but implications for cognitive modeling were unclear, suggesting neither experiments, nor new computational mechanisms.
date: 1991
date_type: published
publication: Artificial Intelligence
volume: 60
pagerange: 313-356
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Clancey, W J.  (1991) The biology of consciousness: Comparative review of Israel Rosenfield, The Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten: An anatomy of Consciousness and Gerald M. Edelman, Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/335/1/123.htm