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One way of understanding a natural process or mechanism is to build a working model and then see if the model has some of the behavior or features of the observed phenomenon. In this book I will describe an attempt at understand the nature of people through computer modeling. It is hoped that this understanding will lead to the possibility of increasing our abilities through artificial mechanisms.
“If a lion could talk, we could not understand him”
L. Wittgenstein,
Philosophical Investigations IIxi.
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Addis, T. (2014). Insight and Reason. In: Natural and Artificial Reasoning. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11286-2_1
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