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Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 21:11:21 GMTServer: NCSA/1.5Content-type: text/htmlLast-modified: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 18:30:18 GMTContent-length: 2554<html><head><title>Andrew's interests</title></head><body><p><h1 align=center> Pontifications</h1><p>My interest lies primarily in contemporary philosophy and the insightswhich it provides into artificial intelligence. Computer science is,in many ways, the queen of sciences because it is the most general attemptto model the world via logical categories. The most complicated "entity" tomodel is, of course, the human mind (as distinct from the brain). Before even attempting to construct such a model, however, it is worth asking whether,given the constrains of computer science, such an undertaking is evenfeasible. The justification for this project is omnipresent throughout muchof the history of philosophy beginning from Plato and Aristotle, and culminating in the present-day Cartesian (technical-scientific) world-view.The questioning of such a world-view - even if it ultimately ends in affirmation - is of the utmost importance if we are to understand the limitsand nature not only of computer science (and by implication, our entiresheaf of techno-rational assumptions), but ourselves as well. The attemptto overcome traditional metaphysics began perhaps with Fredrick Nietzscheand his questioning of the prominence of the notion of truth, and itsrelationship to the self, happiness and will. Martin Heidegger, especiallyin his later writings, repeatedly questions the autonomy of the self, and focuses on the "idea" of Being (manifested in the forgotten copula "is")which underlies all language, thinking, and, hence, Dasein (human being/nature). Most recently, the work of Jacques Derrida has expandedwhile challenging Heidegger's writings, most importantly in the area of absolute presence to oneself (truth) in his essay "Speech and Phenomena". More andmore, contemporary philosophy has focused on the nature of language: whetherit is merely a medium for transporting "data" in which "information" canbe encoded and later decoded, or whether language is ineluctably embeddedin "data" and "information" (and vice-versa). In such a question lies the perpetual conflict between science and the ineffability of art; of theattempt to abstract "meaning" from a poem or a piece of music. The relationto AI is obvious: if the basis of ones humanity is language and the essenceof language defies modeling and synopsis, strong AI is impossible; computerscience is, by implication, a sheaf of nice hacks, absolutely devoid of beauty.<p> <!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><a href = "http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~geery/geery.html"> Back to Andrew's homepage</a></body></html>⌨️ 快捷键说明
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