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Recent decades have produced much research in artificial systems that exhibit important properties of mind. But what exactly is this dramatic new work and how does it change the way we think about the mind, or even about who or what has mind?

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CHOICE Review

Franklin writes about recent progress in cognitive science in his semitechnical book about artificial intelligence and philosophy, whose main objective is to help craft a new conception of "mind" that encompasses computational ideas. He surveys a variety of techniques that have been developed in the computer science community for controlling autonomous agents--methods from robotics, expert systems, neural network modeling, and search algorithms. To a certain extent, he takes up the debate about whether or not computers can think, citing positions of recent writers such as Roger Penrose. The writing style is clear and the author has a positive, even a "booster" attitude toward the whole subject. Appropriate reading for students of cognitive science and philosophy of mind, and those students of artificial intelligence interested in the philosophical and psychological aspects of their subject. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. S. L. Tanimoto University of Washington

Booklist Review

Franklin's tour of contemporary thought on human, animal, and artificial minds introduces creative theories, models, and prototypes of artificial intelligence. After citing the scoffers' arguments regarding the improbability of fashioning artificial minds, Franklin examines some systems that do, in fact, exhibit aspects of intelligence. Next is a debate on the potential usefulness of symbolic AI computer models of cognition versus the connectionism brain model of intelligence. Examples of both models are presented; for instance, SOAR, a symbolic AI program, is claimed to be an architecture for general intelligence. Franklin also explores the multiplicity views of mind, including the pandemonium model, behavior networks, subsumption architecture, and autonomous agents, and he introduces Animat, an artificial life model of simple animals. The final debate is an airing of the views of those workers who dispute the importance of internal representation. Franklin is an entertaining writer and is uncommonly adept at elucidating scientific concepts. --Brenda Grazis