Description - On the Origin of Objects by Brian Cantwell Smith
This text represents the culmination of a decade long investigation into the philosophical and metaphysical foundations of computation, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Based on a sustained critique of the formal tradition that underlies the reigning views, the author presents an argument for an embedded, participatory, "irreductionist" metaphysical alternative. The author seeks to revise our understanding not only of the machines we build, but also of the world with which they interact. The project begins as a search for a comprehensive theory of computation, able to do empirical justice to practice and conceptual justice to the computational theory of mind. This leads ultimately to the recommendation of a radical overhaul of our traditional conception of metaphysics.
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