Computer power and human reason

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How Can Computer Programs Reason?

Computer programs are increasingly being called on to suggest or to make decisions in medical applications. Traditional methods of decision making based on flowcharts and probabilistic classification have proven to be too cumbersome to apply to large domains. As a result, programs employing artificial intelligence methods were introduced in the 1970’s. Deficiencies in those methods limited the ...

the essence of human being viewed by reason and revelation

the popular belief among scientists regarding human essence is that human being is a rational animal. to them, rationality means having the theoretical intellect, i.e. the potential to think and to conceive universal concepts. therefore, according to the popular viewpoint, man is a rational animal who is able to think. the aim of this article is to prove that the belief in god and having the re...

People Power: A Human-Computer Collaborative Learning System

This paper reports our research work in the new field of humancomputer collaborative learning (HCCL). The general architecture of an HCCL is defined. An HCCL system, called People Power, has been implemented in CLOS. It contains a micro-world in which the learner can create an electoral system and simulate elections. The learner's task is to infer relations between the features of the electoral...

Power, reason, closure: critical perspectives on new media theory

This article addresses the question of new media studies’ meta-theoretical premises. It is argued that the field’s exceptional openness towards theory and method is a valuable asset, which needs to be cultivated by means of a more explicit meta-theoretical debate. Drawing on critical theory, three meta-theoretical criteria concerning power, reason and closure are suggested and applied in a revi...