Artificial Psychology. The Quest for What it Means to be Human
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Author(s): J. Friedenberg
Publisher: Guilford Press
ISBN: 0805858857
Format: softback
296pp
Price: £27.99
Review Date: 23 July 2008
Review: This undergraduate textbook examines whether an artificial person could be constructed and looks at the implications that could arise from such an endeavour. The study and attempt to engineer human capabilities can be thought of as ‘artificial psychology’. The arrangement of the book follows that of a textbook on introductory psychology but, in addition, the author looks at the many specific human capabilities that would need to be reproduced in an artificial person, including perception, learning, memory, thought, language, intelligence, consciousness, motivation and emotion. He concludes by anticipating what the future may hold for man–machine interaction.