Critiques: Syllabus of Readings for Complex Adaptive systems and Agent-Based Computational Economics (Tesfatsion)

Syllabus of Readings for Complex Adaptive Systems
and Agent-Based Computational Economics:

7. Classic Critiques

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Daniel C. Dennett, Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology, Harvester Press, Sussex, 1979.
Hubert Dreyfus, What Computers Still Can't Do, A Critique of Artificial Reason, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1992.
A critique of the notion that human intelligence and machine intelligence can even be compared.
Roger Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind, Oxford University Press, New York, 1989 (Paperback by Vintage Press, London, 1990).
A critique of the basic assumptions and objectives underlying artificial intelligence.
William S. Robinson, Computers, Minds, and Robots, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1992.
John Searle, Mind, Brains, and Science, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1984
Searle published his "Chinese Test" many times, in various publications. This booklet is his BBC lectures.
Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason, W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, 1976
Key issue raised: Is it moral to engage in artificial intelligence and alife?