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Extending Mechanics to Minds
This book deploys the mathematical axioms of modern rational mechanics to help the
reader understand minds as mechanical systems that exhibit actual, not metaphorical,
forces, inertia, and motion. Using precise mental models developed in artificial intelli-
gence, the author analyzes motivation, attention, reasoning, learning, munica-
tion in mechanical terms.
These analyses provide psychology and economics with new characterizations of
bounded rationality, provide mechanics with new types of materials exhibiting the con-
stitutive kinematic and dynamic properties characteristic of different kinds of minds,
and provide philosophy with a rigorous theory of hybrid bining discrete
and continuous mechanical quantities. The resulting mechanical reintegration of the
physical sciences that characterize human bodies and the mental sciences that character-
ize human minds opens traditional philosophical and putational questions
to new paths of technical analysis.
JON DOYLE is SAS Institute Distinguished Professor puter Science at North
Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. His formative contributions helped
generate widespread studies of reason (or truth) maintenance and nonmonotonic logic;
self-governing reflective agents; rational and economic foundations for reasoning, rep-
resentation, and learning; and qualitative decision theory. Dr. Doyle is a Fellow of the
American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He has served as a member of
the AAAI Executive Council, as chairman of ACM SIGART, and as a member of sev-
eral editorial boards, including those of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research,
Computational Intelligence, puting Surveys,theJournal of Logic, Language
and Information,munications.
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