1st Edition
Artificial Believers The Ascription of Belief
Biography
Ballim, Afzal; Wilks, Yorick
"What, therefore, is especially important about this book for anthropologists is the rigorously intensionalist(p.6) view of cognition, meaning, and hence "belief", a view necessary for any plausible comparative theory of cultural systems, and the demonstration that only such a view can be coherent, adequate, and finitely specifiable.... a highly motivated and rigorous computational model..."
—American Anthropologist"In about the fortieth year of its existence, artificial intelligence may just be beginning to show signs of maturation....undoubtedly stimulating contents."
—Nature"...this book is interesting, applies a broad range of new belief attribution heuristics in very creative ways..."
—Minds and Machines
