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What is Language of Thought (“Mentalese”)

Chapter 277
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
Is a hypothesized language-like system in whose terms all human cognition is supposed to take place. Advocates of this hypothesis acknowledge that not all of our thinking is discursive (by means of an inner dialogue), but they argue that the systematic structure of ideas and thinking implies that there must be a language of thought, albeit below the level of conscious access. The language-of-thought hypothesis partly justifies symbolic AI as a sufficient basis for AI.
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History of Artificial Intelligence Before Computers
Bruce MacLennan (University of Tennessee, USA)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.ch277
Abstract
The history of artificial intelligence (AI) is commonly supposed to begin with Turing’s (1950) discussions of machine intelligence, and to have been defined as a field at the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. However, the ideas on which AI is based, and in particular those on which symbolic AI (see below) is based, have a very long history in the Western intellectual tradition, dating back to ancient Greece (see also McCorduck, 2004). It is important for modern researchers to understand this history for it reflects problematic assumptions about the nature of knowledge and cognition: assumptions that can impede the progress of AI if accepted uncritically.
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