Understanding the natural and artificial worlds; economic rationality - adaptive artifice; the psychology of thinking - embedding artifice in nature; remembering and learning - memory as environment for thought; the science of design - creating the artificial; social planning - designing the evolving artifact; alternative views of complexity; the architecture of complexity - hierarchic systems.
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
Herbert Simon is Professor of Psychology at Carnegie-Mellon University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 1978.
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