Event overview
Professor Mark Bishop, Professor of Computing will deliver his inaugural lecture 'Radical post-cognitivism: new approaches to intelligence and the mind'
ABSTRACT: In this talk Mark will first show how the hegemony of the computational metaphor enabled the paths of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cognitive Science to run hand in hand for much of the last 60 years. He will then review powerful arguments that suggest computational explanations of mind will ultimately fail and demonstrate how cognitivist approaches to the most complex, real-world, engineering problems have now been overtaken by newer AI methods grounded in statistics. Stressing the importance of the body, the talk will conclude by sketching a new, radical, post-cognitivist metaphor for cognitive processes that shifts emphasis from "abstract computations" to "embodied interactions".
The lecture will be followed by a reception (at about 6.30pm) in the Staff Dining Room, Richard Hoggart Building.
The lectures are free and un-ticketed but those wishing to attend are asked to RSVP to the Warden’s Office to the email inaugurals@gold.ac.uk.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 13 Mar 2012 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
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