Very true; and I like Hofstadter. I'm too lazy to read books -
not for a long time - but I peruse the Internet like crazy and
learn that way.
I looked at his list of major students:
Don Byrd*Music Notation by Computer
David Chalmers*Toward a Theory of Consciousness
Gray A. Clossman*A Model of Categorization and Learning in a
Connectionist Broadcast System
Hamid Ekbia*AI Dreams and Discourse: Science and Engineering in
Tension
Harry Foundalis*Phaeaco: A Cognitive Architecture Inspired by
Bongard's Problems
Bob French*Tabletop: An Emergent, Stochastic Model of
Analogy-Making
Francisco Lara-Dammer*Modeling Human Discoverativity in Geometry
Abhijit Mahabal*SeqSee: A Concept-centered Architecture for
Sequence Perception
Jim Marshall*Metacat: A Self-Watching Cognitive Architecture for
Analogy-making and High level Perception
Gary McGraw*Letter Spirit (Part One): Emergent High-level
Perception of Letters Using Fluid Concepts
Marsha Meredith*Seek-Whence: A Model of Pattern Perception
Eric Nichols*Musicat: A Computer Model of Musical Listening and
Analogy-Making
Melanie Mitchell*Copycat: A Computer Model of High-Level
Perception and Conceptual Slippage in Analogy-making
John Rehling*Letter Spirit (Part Two): Modeling Creativity in a
Visual Domain
Wang Pei (Pei Wang) -- Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System: Exploring
the Essence of Intelligence
and there's David Chalmers, who while I disagree with him on
_some_ nit-picky points, overall I find it difficult to argue
with. [my misgivings were minimal enough that I don't have to
think of them unless probed; much like my misgivings about
Sagan; they're "close enough" for now].
Unfortunately, I don't recognize the other names, but I love the
topics they're working on. It's definitely within my family of
cognitive beliefs, and I now have a direction of further
research to explore and decide what I accept, what I reject, and
ultimately making finer and finer cuts in the distinctiveness of
"what I believe to be True", which is one of my missions. I'm
particularly interested in "Jim Marshall*Metacat: A
Self-Watching Cognitive Architecture for Analogy-making and High
level Perception" - as that's what I've been working on for some
time now and I will compare his beliefs with my own. Thank you
[1]Don Parker - I look for inspiration everywhere I go because I
never no from whence it will come.
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