Machines and Thought

Peter Millican is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Computer Studies at the University of Leeds.Andy Clark is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology program at Washington State University, St Louis, Missouri. He is the author of Microcognition (MIT Press 1989) and Associative Engines (MIT Press 1993).

• 1. Subcognition and the Limits of the Turing Test ; 2. Turing's Test and Conscious Thought ; 3. The Turing Test: AI's Biggest Blind Alley? ; 4. The Intentional Stance and the Imitation Game ; 5. Machine as Mind ; 6. Minds, Machines, and Godel: A Retrospect ; 7. Human versus Mechanical Intelligence ; 8. The Church-Turing Thesis: Its Nature and Status ; 9. Measurement and Computational Description ; 10. Beyond Turing Equivalence ; 11. The Demise of the Turing Machine in Complexity Theory ; 12. A Grammar-Based Approach to Common-Sense Reasoning ; 13. Chaos: Its Past, its Present, but Mostly its Future ; 14. The Hierarchies of Knowledge and the Mathematics of Discovery

A fascinating series of essays on computation by contributors in various fields of knowledge ... we can all learn by reading these essays because they encourage us to explore issues beyond our normal sphere of expertise.