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Contrasts bottom-up and top-down strategies for analyzing the concepts of information and artificial intelligence. On the top-down view, information is conceptually dependent on the conditions of human interpretation; whereas on the bottom-up view, information is independent of such conditions. Three kinds of bottom-up strategies are distinguished: physicalistic, Leibnizian (Dretske), and homuncular (Dennett). The top- down approach favors a technological or praxical conception of information and artificial intelligence, and is thus more reasonable and promising.
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Margolis, J. (1986). Information, Artificial Intelligence, and the Praxical. In: Mitcham, C., Huning, A. (eds) Philosophy and Technology II. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 90. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4512-8_12
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