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Mind design is the endeavor to understand mind (thinking, intellect) in terms of its design (how it is built, how it works). Unlike traditional empirical psychology, it is more oriented toward the "how" than the "what. An experiment in mind design is more likely to be an attempt to build something and make it work - as in artificial intelligence - than to observe or analyze what already exists. Mind design is psychology by reverse engineering.
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Mind Design II Philosophy Psychology Artificial Intelligence Revised and enlarged edition edited by John Haugeland A Bradford Book The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England Second printing, 1997 © 1997 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. Book design and typesetting by John Haugeland. Body text set in Adobe Garamond 11.5 on 13; titles set in Zapf Humanist 601 BT. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mind design II / edited by John Haugeland.—2nd ed., rev. and enlarged. p. cm. "A Bradford book." Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-262-08259-4 (hc: alk. paper).—ISBN 0-262-58153-1 (pb: alk. paper) 1. Artificial intelligence. 2. Cognitive psychology. I. Haugeland, John, 1945Q335.5.M492 1997 006.3—dc21 96-45188 CIP for Barbara and John III Contents 1 What Is Mind Design? 1 John Haugeland 2 Computing Machinery and Intelligence 29 A. M. Turing 3 True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why It Works 57 Daniel C. Dennett 4 Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search