I've been reading several book related to Artificial Intelligence with focus on human mind development. After all, if you seek to create a machine intelligence similar to the way to human mind works, it makes sense to study how the human mind works, develops and learns.
After reading several books, I have concluded that no one person know how the human mind works in it's full detail. Our human science simply does not tell us enough to copy or replicate the exact way the human mind works.
They are many theories on how the human mind works and I conclude that none of them are provided correct or false at this time. Whatever theory you prescribe to, in my opinion is no worse or better then any other. It comes down to matter of choice and which theory seems to match you design needs better.
I'm coming to the conclusion that to achive artificial intelligence, it might be more helpful to free our minds from the dogma of all the theories floating around and pick the parts we like we combine them in new ways to create new types of thinking machines.
One really good book I read was:
“Basic Instinct: The Genesis of Behavior”,
by Mark S. Blumberg, A neuroscientist at the University of Iowa, Copyright, 2005
--Darwin says roughly that, any action we take or make, without any experience and without any knowledge of why the action if performed, could be said to be an instinct or instinctive. --
This book was a really good study on instincts and if you want to study AI or robotics control I think you need to study instincts.
Another wonderful book I read was:
“The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, by Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D.
He was the Minister-Directory of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles for almost three decades, Copyright 2008
--You are the beliefs taking shape, image by image, light and shadow there in your subterranean darkroom (your subconscious). In a moral sense, you subconscious is totally neutral, willing to look on any habit as fitting, whether or not you are the world deem it good or bad. That is why when we blithely drop negative thoughts into our subconscious, into this darkroom of ours, time and time again, we are so surprised to see these dark thoughts finding expression in our day-to-day experiences and relationships…time and time again.--
This book really demystified for me what the subsconscious mind is and how it behaves.
This next books, had some interesting thoughts in, but I did not find it as helpful as the books I mentioned aboved.
“The Genius in All of Us” by, David Shenk
He is a author of other books and correspondent for TheAtlantic.com and has contributed to National Geographic, Slate, the New York Times, Gourmet, Harper’s, The New Yorker, NPR and PBS, copyright 2010
This books focus mostly on how our genes effect us, but in a dynamic way. The books a long way to explain that there are a lot of missconceptions about genes, for instance lets say both of your parents were doctors or lawyers, it does not mean that genetically you are predisposed to be a successful doctor or lawyer as well.
“Intelligence and How to get It”, by Richard E. Nisbett, copyright 2009, Professor at University of Michigan, Ann Harbor
Not a very good book for AI research, it does not make the subject easy to understand, the conclusions are not clearly defined and it focus a lot on education and the reasons for why school children take IQ tests and how the results are useful and how to apply them. The conclusions that are stated I don’t personally care for.
“Robot Intelligence: An Advanced Knowledge Processing Approach”, By Honghai Liu, Dongbing Gu, Robert J. Howlett and Yonghuai, Liu, copyright 2010
This book is awful for real world examples. It gives a very high level overview of outdated concepts. At the very little the concepts are at least 10 years old. It gives a lot of math. If you are wanting a PhD in physics and also interested in robotics, then this book might be a good bridge.
“The Birth of The Mind”, by Gary Marcus, copyright 2004
--Autodidact
The mechanisms that allow the brain to rewire its self get exploited internally. Internally generated signals are used to transmit types of test patterns to simulate sensory information to columns to neurons used for sensor processing. This allows babies to hone their sensory processing in the womb and helps the eye, ears and other sensory inputs to be calibrated and ready for live input.--
After reading several books, I have concluded that no one person know how the human mind works in it's full detail. Our human science simply does not tell us enough to copy or replicate the exact way the human mind works.
They are many theories on how the human mind works and I conclude that none of them are provided correct or false at this time. Whatever theory you prescribe to, in my opinion is no worse or better then any other. It comes down to matter of choice and which theory seems to match you design needs better.
I'm coming to the conclusion that to achive artificial intelligence, it might be more helpful to free our minds from the dogma of all the theories floating around and pick the parts we like we combine them in new ways to create new types of thinking machines.
One really good book I read was:
“Basic Instinct: The Genesis of Behavior”,
by Mark S. Blumberg, A neuroscientist at the University of Iowa, Copyright, 2005
--Darwin says roughly that, any action we take or make, without any experience and without any knowledge of why the action if performed, could be said to be an instinct or instinctive. --
This book was a really good study on instincts and if you want to study AI or robotics control I think you need to study instincts.
Another wonderful book I read was:
“The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, by Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D.
He was the Minister-Directory of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles for almost three decades, Copyright 2008
--You are the beliefs taking shape, image by image, light and shadow there in your subterranean darkroom (your subconscious). In a moral sense, you subconscious is totally neutral, willing to look on any habit as fitting, whether or not you are the world deem it good or bad. That is why when we blithely drop negative thoughts into our subconscious, into this darkroom of ours, time and time again, we are so surprised to see these dark thoughts finding expression in our day-to-day experiences and relationships…time and time again.--
This book really demystified for me what the subsconscious mind is and how it behaves.
This next books, had some interesting thoughts in, but I did not find it as helpful as the books I mentioned aboved.
“The Genius in All of Us” by, David Shenk
He is a author of other books and correspondent for TheAtlantic.com and has contributed to National Geographic, Slate, the New York Times, Gourmet, Harper’s, The New Yorker, NPR and PBS, copyright 2010
This books focus mostly on how our genes effect us, but in a dynamic way. The books a long way to explain that there are a lot of missconceptions about genes, for instance lets say both of your parents were doctors or lawyers, it does not mean that genetically you are predisposed to be a successful doctor or lawyer as well.
“Intelligence and How to get It”, by Richard E. Nisbett, copyright 2009, Professor at University of Michigan, Ann Harbor
Not a very good book for AI research, it does not make the subject easy to understand, the conclusions are not clearly defined and it focus a lot on education and the reasons for why school children take IQ tests and how the results are useful and how to apply them. The conclusions that are stated I don’t personally care for.
“Robot Intelligence: An Advanced Knowledge Processing Approach”, By Honghai Liu, Dongbing Gu, Robert J. Howlett and Yonghuai, Liu, copyright 2010
This book is awful for real world examples. It gives a very high level overview of outdated concepts. At the very little the concepts are at least 10 years old. It gives a lot of math. If you are wanting a PhD in physics and also interested in robotics, then this book might be a good bridge.
“The Birth of The Mind”, by Gary Marcus, copyright 2004
--Autodidact
The mechanisms that allow the brain to rewire its self get exploited internally. Internally generated signals are used to transmit types of test patterns to simulate sensory information to columns to neurons used for sensor processing. This allows babies to hone their sensory processing in the womb and helps the eye, ears and other sensory inputs to be calibrated and ready for live input.--
This book was awesome! It had a large section on how language works in our minds not just to form words and communicate but is also used in memory to help store large concepts. Language is also used to help use plan actions and rehears what we are going to do. This book is worth reading!
Hope you enjoy my book reviews.
as always, Happy Roboting! =)
