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Growing Up Feeling Good, the life handbook for kids, was inspired by questions and issues shared with the author by more than a million preteens, teens, parents and teacher at her school programs.
Growing Up Feeling Good is a warm, wise, down-to-earth reference that kids (and the adults in their life) will turn to again and again for information, support and guidance. This comprehensive life handbook addresses a broad range of issues, including: friendship; popularity; peer pressure; growth and development; sex; alcohol and other drugs; family feelings; divorce; getting closer to parents; dealing with death; school; dealing with differences; having a disability;and much more.
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Highly recommended guide for both parents and children.......2002-06-08
Now in a newly revised and expanded edition, Growing Up Feeling Good: The Life Handbook For Kids by educator and human sexuality expert Ellen Rosenberg is a comprehensive resource written specifically for preteen and teenaged young adults. Individual chapters address such problematic issues affecting preteen and adolescent sexual development as peer pressure, adjusting to the biological changes of puberty, the thorny issues of sex, dealing with separation, divorce, step-families, and a great deal more. Growing Up Feeling Good is a very solid and highly recommended guide for both parents and children.
An excellent resource!.......2000-05-09
I am a physician and love to speak to pre- and adolescent teens about puberty and all the changes that occur with their bodies and minds at that time. I love this book and refer to it often-my clinic is now purchasing copies for the local school system-to be read, re-read, used and shared-from the elementary kids to the high school students to the teachers and counselors!
An instruction manual for adolescent life.......1999-12-29
I first came across this book when I was nine. Since then I have read it a countless number of times. I am sixteen now, and I still look back on it from time to time. It has all the information a young teen would ever need; all in a chunky little manual. The author writes with a very compassionate tone...This is a gem of a book!
a how to guide for kids to better understand themselves.......1998-05-24
A must for every young person to read! The author not only discusses topics that are of great concern to kids, but offers many choices on how to handle difficult situations. My three kids have read this book and loved it. And when they don't have it, I'm reading it! I recommend that parents read it as well.
Excellent reference book for teenagers.......1998-05-04
This book was recommended to me for my 11- and 13-year-old kids by a physician assistant. She had found it helpful for her teenagers. So I got a copy from the library to review before I let my kids see it. I thought it was excellent: a wide range of topics of interest to adolescents are addressed in an honest, sensitive style. My kids liked the book too, so we decided to buy a copy for reference--for those questions that will come up in the next few years that they don't quite feel comfortable asking Mom or Dad. I'd prefer they get their answers from this book, rather than from a boyfriend or girlfriend.
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- A Pilgrimage in Search of Hope
- Eternal Journey
- A wonderful story that is thoughtful and emotive.
- Deceptively simple but insightful narrative.
- A pilgrimage in search of hope and fulfillment
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A Pilgrimage in Search of Hope.......2000-10-29
Perhaps the book should be titled "Eternal Hope" for that is what the reader is offered. Anyone who has suffered the loss of a loved one is left wondering: "What now"? Kindred spirits know that communication between the survivor and the deceased merely moves to a higher level. Only those looking for the "clues" will make the connection. Dr. Carroll, the main character, takes us on a journey of self-discovery providing the reader with hope, joy, a sense of peace and peacefullness. On the surface a deceptively simple story; on reflection an intricate story simply told. As a caregiver in a variety of settings, including a trauma unit, I have witnessed family loss throughout my career. Healing the survivors is just as important as providing care for the patient. I encourage you to take the journey!
Eternal Journey.......2000-10-26
Once in a while a little book comes along and just steals you away. Read a page or two and the next thing you know, you're gone...you're somewhere else for awhile. Eternal Journey does exactly that. It transports you to a special place where mystical events unfold and love transcends loss. Acceptance triumphs over anguish; grief grows into hope. On your journey through this book, you'll travel with Anna, a successful psychotherapist whose mission is helping others unravel and come to terms with life's mysteries. When Anna loses her closest friend Beth to cancer--the third such loss among her friends in a year--she comes unglued. Disconsolate, and trying to "get a grip" (ironically the name of her own radio talk show), she flees to Martha's Vineyard Island for a long winter week-end of healing solitude. Hoping to work through her grief alone, she discovers she is anything but alone. Inexplicably, she runs into and then keeps crossing paths with a truly remarkable individual. As she struggles to find meaning in her loss, other extraordinary "encounters" take place, until finally she realizes that love and connections never die....That life is maybe only one leg of an ongoing journey. Perhaps death is not the end of the road. Perhaps the dying process is really a gateway to another path in our travels. Like the birth process. What an affirming concept! What you'll love about Eternal Journey is that it bravely takes you where other books do not. Through the medium of storytelling, this lovely and poignant fable speaks straight to your belief systems, offering meanings unfamiliar to most outside the realm of hospice care and grief counseling. Far from being morbid or depressing, the author's message absolutely shines: it's awe inspiring and uplifting. In a word, it's hope (yes, as in "...springs eternal"). Eternal Journey is not just for the bereaved or those anticipating a bereavement. It's for all of us. Consider it a gift for your spirit, a balm for your soul. Hutton has created a wonderful imaginative journey for anyone open to life's marvels. It's a rare and fine treat.
A wonderful story that is thoughtful and emotive........1999-02-09
Dr. Hutton's story is thoughtful and emotive, leaving the reader with a perspective of his/her own journey. Along with this perspective one can achieve insights into personal losses, or of losses of those close to us. A very inovative self-help book. A great book to experience! Thanks, Carol.
John C. Cooper, Divisional Director Psychiatry and Chemical Dependency Lower Florida Keys Health System, Inc. Key West, FL jonbudkeys@aol.com
Deceptively simple but insightful narrative........1998-12-29
Gives cause for reflection, synthesis and assimilation of one's life experiences through the parable of Anna. A tasteful blend of mysticism and practicalism which is easily digested, interpreted and applied as the reader sees fit.
A pilgrimage in search of hope and fulfillment.......1998-07-27
Perhaps the book should be titled "Eternal Hope" for that is what the reader is offered. Anyone who has suffered the loss of a loved one is left wondering: "what now?" Kindred spirits know that communication between the survivor and deceased moves to a higher level. Only those looking for the "clues" will make the connection. Through the main character, Dr. Carroll, the author takes us on a journey of discovery. Dr. Carroll's pilgrimage provides the reader with hope and joy. On the surface a deceptively simple story; on reflection an intricate story told with simplicity. As a caregiver in a trauma unit I have witnessed family loss throughout my career. Healing the survivors is just as important as providing care for the patient. I encourage you to take the journey!
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All About Girls, Puberty, and Growing Up
What preteen or young teen hasn't wondered, "What is up with my body?" even if YOU haven't yet, you will, and that's okay. There really are answers, good answers, to all of your questions.
Inside is reassuring, accurate advice for all preteen and young teen girls (and their parents). Presented in a question and answer format, all of the toughest and most important stuff that's on your mind is right here from body changes, skin and hair care, and menstruation to moods, eating disorders, and sexuality. You'll discover what your body is all about and feel great about it and yourself.
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Smart!.......2002-08-15
I gave this book to my 11-year-old niece. She loves how straight forward the information is, especially on sensitive subjects like sexuality, menstruation, and body image. She says it makes her feel more confident, less confused, and less alone. And those are all good things, especially at her age. I appreciate the very positive tone and that it has been reviewed by so many experts.
Written with integrity for tweens and teens!.......2002-08-12
My 12 year old daughter spotted it as we were shopping for books for her to take to sleep-away camp. She chose WHAT'S WITH MY BODY by herself. When we got it, I was delighted to see that Selene Yeager was the author. Knowing the research and integrity she put into her other books, I felt confident that the tone and information would be just right for my daughter and I was not disappointed.
The chapters on body image, stress and mood swings are a gift, let me tell you. These are challenging years for a girl and ones that I would not repeat for any amount of money. It breaks my heart to see my child struggle with body image issues and mood swings and even doubts about herself socially. Yikes, it takes you back...
The advice Ms Yeager offers in the book speaks directly to my daughter and she hasn't put the book down since she bought it. She's literally reading and re-reading chapters every night. She told me that she likes knowing that other kids have the same questions she does. And I like knowing that the information was written by someone who cares enough to give her responsible advice.
Thank you for writing this book. I think that every YMCA in the country should adopt the book as part of a course on "Your changing Body" for the 10-14 year old crowd. I also hope that the school library market embraces this book too. I know what's out there. This is the best book I've seen to date.
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Growing Up Feeling Good
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By the 11th century the French King had lost control of border regions, while local warfare had grown alarmingly frequent. In fact the energies of the French military élite were now focused on petty internal squabbles and external adventures like the Norman conquest of England. Nevertheless, the population and economy both expanded, although it was not until the 12th century that the crown rebuilt its power-base. Despite its slow start when compared with neighbours like England, the Kingdom of France had, by the 13th century, risen to become the most powerful state in Western Europe. This title describes the organisation, history and tactics of French medieval armies.
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Was the Cold War inevitable? Was there an international communist conspiracy? Did Castro and Khrushchev beat Kennedy in the Cuban missile crisis? After combing through a mass of declassified and previously unavailable documentation to reconsider the collision of the American and Soviet empires, Yale professor Gaddis replies in the affirmative. Given Josef Stalin's convictions, the Cold War was inescapable: it is the choices that each side made that prove fruitful for historical research, and not the mere fact of the war, as Gaddis neatly demonstrates. The American empire--Gaddis's term--prevailed because, he says, "democracy proved superior to autocracy in maintaining coalitions," and not necessarily because of any technological or economic advantage. Gaddis dispels several misconceptions and urges that students of Cold War history should foremost "retain the capacity to be surprised."
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"A masterly review of the early pahses of the conflict between the United States, Russia, China and their respective allies from 1946 to the Cuban missle crisis in the autumn of 1962. It is clear, thorough and judicious; in short, magnificent."--The Economist "...Gaddis has done a thorough job
of collating material from these diverse sources...and constructing a trenchant analysis that puts these fascinating tidbits into context."--San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner Based on the latest findings of Cold War historians and extensive research in American archives as well as the recently
opened archives in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and China, We Now Know provides a vividly written, eye-opening account of the Cold War during the years from the end of World War II to the Cuban missile crisis. The book brims with new information drawn from previously unavailable sources,
with fresh insight into the impact of ideology, economics, and nuclear weapons, and with striking reinterpretations of the roles of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Khrushchev, Mao, and Stalin. Indeed, Gaddis concludes that if there was one factor that made the Cold War unavoidable it was Stalin.
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Provoking the Bear...........2007-08-12
It's almost impossible to defend dictators who always overstay their historical need, however, we tend to leave out some of the historical facts that may be a part of the problem.
We (USA) sent 15,000 troops into Russia in 1918 to fight the bolsheviks. In addition, Harry Truman authorized overflights of Russia in 1950 using the new Boeing B-47 as a reconnaissance platform. Some histories point out that up to 200 military personnel were lost in these overflights.
I would say that this kind of activity is 'somewhat' provocative and might cause the Russians some concern, particularly in regard to our (USA's) motives AND intentions.
We (the USA) then added the U-2 spy plane into the mix in 1956 and we denied sending this plane over Russian territory. Until, of course, the loss of a U-2 in 1960.
So the Russian Bear really had a dance partner and if the dance partner didn't create the problem, it certainly didn't help to solve the problem and this added to Russia's paranoia!!!!!
JL GADDIS is a house toady. And he teaches at the school that has a long tradition of providing candidates to the Central Intelligence Agency, whose reputation is overstated and whose greatest claim to fame is taking on and SOMETIMES defeating 3rd world countries and governments.
a bit lazy.......2007-01-24
Not much new in this recycled history of the Cold War. Presents the story from the exclusive standpoint of American policy makers.
Rethinking the First Years of the Cold War.......2006-11-20
"We Now Know" is Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis' review of the early years of the post-World War II competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. This book was first published in 1997, a few years after the Soviet side of the Cold War had become available to historians in the West. Gaddis and others had previously written from what was known about the West and surmised about the Communists. Gaddis revisits the struggle and fleshes out how actions on both sides drove the course of history.
This is a scholarly volume, written for the graduate student in foreign affairs, with large numbers of footnotes. Nevertheless, the general reader with an interest in the Cold War and the fortitude to persevere through some long stretches of dry material will be richly rewarded with some interesting insights.
Gaddis finds that the personalities of principal communist leaders such as Stalin, Khrushchev, and Mao played a disportionate role in determining the foreign policies of the Soviet Union and Communist China, the direct result of a lack of checks and balances in their authoritarian governments. Stalin's paranoid need for security inside and outside Russia, for example, was so great in 1945 that no concessions by the West could have avoided the Cold War. Khrushchev's attempt to bluff the West on the size of the Soviet strategic deterrent also fooled his allies, contributing to misunderstandings and failed policy. Gaddis assesses that Kim Il-Song of North Korea misled both Stalin and Mao into supporting his invasion of South Korea in 1950.
Gaddis finds that the policy of both the United States and the Soviet Union were to a significant degree shaped by interaction with their respective allies. The willingness of the United States to consult in a meaningful way with its allies was essential to the acceptance of its policies, while the tendency of the Soviet Union to coerce its allies triggered much of the resistance that undermined the Soviet empire. Gaddis' thoughtful analysis of the role of nuclear weapons is especially worthwhile.
"We Now Know" holds up remarkably well against the ten years of additional research available since Gaddis wrote this book. It is highly recommended to students of the Cold War.
Rehashed previous material mostly..........2006-11-13
Gaddis rehashed much of his previously printed material mostly, and consults very little foregin source material, and of course again lays the blame for the Cold War at Stalin's feet. Though this work may provide a decent primer for those beginning to study the Cold War, this work is not going to provide a very fresh look or say much Gaddis hasn't said before... To counter balance Gaddis, take a look at "Cold War Triumphalism" edited by Ellen Schrecker.
Volume I of the History of the Cold War.......2005-03-09
We Now Know by John Lewis Gaddis is a preliminary reevaluation of the first half of the Cold War (roughly 1945-62) based on information from the Soviet side that has become available since the demise of the Soviet Union. After presenting a wealth of material, Gaddis offers eight tentative hypotheses:
1. Diversification of power did more to shape the Cold War than did the balance of power. The Soviet Union rivaled the west in military power but lagged significantly in every other dimension, such as economic, cultural, moral, and ideological.
2. Both the US and Soviet Union built empires during the Cold War but they differed significantly. The Western European nations actively sought US support and involvement in the post-WWII years, leading to NATO and the Marshall Plan. In contrast, the Soviet Union had to put down numerous active revolts by members of the Warsaw Pact.
3. Many people did see the Cold War as a contest between good and evil, even if historians rarely did. Thousands of East Germans voted with their feet immediately after WWII, again in the 1950s (leading to the construction of the Berlin Wall), and again in 1989 (when Hungary opened its borders).
4. Democracy proved superior to autocracy in maintaining coalitions. Gaddis observes that many attributes of a nation's internal politics carry over into its foreign policy. The US was able to maintain its coalition by applying the consensus building techniques used domestically to managing its coalition. The Soviet Union's approach to coalition building, based on its approach to domestic politics, achieved unity within the Warsaw Pact only by smothering dissent.
5. Marxism-Leninism fostered authoritarian romanticism. At the end of WWII, Stalin believed that the next war would be between competing capitalist nations, that the workers of the world would unite, and that all the Soviet Union needed to do was to wait for capitalism to self-destruct. He failed to realize that his aggressive moves into central Europe had united the capitalist nations against him.
6. Nuclear weapons exchanged destructiveness for duration. Nuclear weapons rendered direct military conflict between the US and Soviet Union untenable, even in the years when the US had an overwhelming nuclear superiority. The result was that the Cold War continued unabated until the late 1980s.
7. As long as Stalin was running the Soviet Union, the Cold War was inevitable. If one imagines the changes in history that might have resulted from removing one key individual, the only such change that might have prevented the Cold War appears to be the removal of Stalin. His unique position is due to both his absolute power over the Soviet Union and his aggressive policies, exemplified by his moves into central Europe, his encouragement of Kim Il Sung to invade South Korea, and pressure on Mao to intervene when the US/UN forces had defeated the North Koreans. In contrast, removing any one western leader would not have produced any significant change in the course of events.
8. Future Cold War historians should retain the capacity to be surprised. Gaddis modestly observes that his book is not likely to be the final word on the Cold war.
One striking aspects of We Now Know is the description of "Potemkinism" and the impact it had on (1) the Soviet Union, (2) the US, and (3) the Soviet allies. (A Potemkin Village is a façade: An apparently prosperous village consisting of nothing more than building fronts and props built solely to impress the Tsar.) (1) In the face of US military superiority after WWII, the Soviet leadership repeatedly exaggerated its military strength. Waves of bombers flying over the Kremlin in conjunction with parades circled back and flew over again to create the impression of tremendous air power. Khrushchev repeatedly boasted about the superiority of his missiles and nuclear warheads when, in fact, he had very few available. This bluff was designed to deter the US by concealing the actual weakness of the Soviet Union, but Khrushchev failed to anticipate the potential reactions by the US and his allies. (2) In the US, the bluff prompted the "missile gap" debate that figured prominently in the 1960 presidential election and provoked a major effort to "catch up" with the Soviets. The Soviets were then forced to commit more resources to expanding their strategic capabilities in the face of actual American superiority and the arms race was underway. (3) Several Soviet clients also believed the bluff and acted more aggressively because they relied on Soviet military superiority to back them up. This pattern contributed to Kim Il Sung's invasion of South Korea, the Chinese intervention in the Korean War, and Castro's aggressive stance during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
We Now Know focuses on the first half of the Cold War, so it is unfair to criticize it for not addressing how and why the Cold War ended. Gaddis offers a few hints related (1) the impact of the change in US policy under Reagan from containment to challenging the Soviets across the spectrum of power (military, economic, moral, cultural, etc) and (2) the numerous changes in Soviet policy under Gorbachev, glasnost, creation of democratic institutions, and especially, the decision not to intervene when the Berlin Wall came down.
Perhaps Professor Gaddis is working on a sequel to address the second half of the Cold War and, especially, its conclusion. I'll offer three gratuitous thoughts for this endeavor. (1) His comments on Gorbachev's impact on the Soviet Union and the Cold War are very much on the mark. Gorbachev was faced with the impossible task of reforming a monstrosity with no redeeming qualities. His willingness to allow the Soviet Union to die rather than return to the policies of Stalin and Lenin established him as the only Soviet leader who was truly a "Hero of the Soviet Union". (2) Gaddis' comment that it is not clear whether Reagan's policy change in the 1980s was out of "ignorance or craft" is a bit unfair. Moving to confrontation may have been risky (primarily in economic terms, since nuclear standoff was well established) but I think it was well thought out and executed. The challenge was extended primarily in the economic and moral dimensions of power where the Soviets were most vulnerable. I don't mean to give all credit to Reagan; I think Margaret Thatcher was his strategic and philosophical mentor in this and many other areas. (3) Finally, I'll offer some credit to Jimmy Carter who claimed the moral high ground for the US with his emphasis on human rights. His policies may have been largely ineffectual at the time (Iran, Nicaragua) but they laid the foundation for challenging the Soviet Union on moral grounds.
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Title: We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. (book reviews)
Author: Raymond L. Garthoff
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 1997
Publisher: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
Volume: v53
Issue: n6
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The idea that human thinking and machine computing are "radically the same" provides the central theme for this marvelously lucid and witty book on what artificial intelligence is all about. Although presented entirely in nontechnical terms, it neither oversimplifies the science nor evades the central philosophical issues.
John Haugeland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and the editor of Mind Design: Essays in Philosophy, Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence. A Bradford Book
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Don't judge this book by its cover..........2002-08-01
Don't judge this book by its cover-or at least by its title. Haugeland's Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea does not adequately serve as a general introduction to the conceptual underpinnings and philosophical background of the quest to create an artificial mind. Rather, it focuses on one specific approach to how natural and man-made thought works: "thinking...essentially is rational manipulation of mental symbols." (p. 4) Haugeland plows forward with this as his core assumption, barely noting that some AI researchers see thought from a very different perspective (for example, the connectionists) and others find the whole enterprise fraught with theoretical difficulty (such as Dreyfus).
So Haugeland's story is that of a particular theory of mind that held predominance for several decades (what the author himself dubs "good, old-fashioned artificial intelligence" or "GOFAI", p. 112) but is now gradually being superceded. His introduction to this story concludes with a description of the Turing test and a justification for its use, and a brief statement of the efficacy of describing a system in different-even contradictory-ways through different "organizational levels". (p. 9) Of all the ideas presented in the book, this last one has the greatest promise for applicability beyond GOFAI.
Chapter 1, "The Saga of the Modern Mind", is a condensed bit of intellectual history. Haugeland introduces the philosophical children of the Copernican revolution-Hobbes, Descartes, and Hume-and the ways they grappled with understanding the world of the mental with the ideas that had proven so effective in the physical sciences. We soon encounter the "paradox of mechanical reason": if reason is the meaningful manipulation of symbols, and meanings are not physical entities, then how can machines manipulate them? (p. 39)
Chapter 2 serves as an extended definition of "Automatic Formal Systems", that is, computers. This material is the most challenging in the text, but the important concepts (formal games, digital systems, medium independence, etc.), are well-described, except for finite playability. The students I tutored through this work found it impossible to determine just what point was being made, and so did I.
How does one assign meanings-connections to the "real", outside world-to the symbols that a computer manipulates? This question is taken up in Chapter 3, "Semantics"-and answered, it seems, by sleight-of-hand. Haugeland gives to this the name "the formalist's motto": "if you take care of the syntax, the semantics will take care of itself". (p. 106) Neither I nor my students found this simple resolution at all satisfying. In every example of a formal game that the author presents, whatever semantic interpretation it has is provided from outside the system.
Chapter 4, "Computer Architecture", charts the milestones of computing. It begins with the analytical engine, and lauds Babbage's single-handed invention of programming without noting, however, that a human mind does not resemble the tabula rasa of a computer's memory bank. Moving quickly to the twentieth century, we get insightful descriptions of Turing machines, von Neumann machines (which turn out to be the kind of computer we are accustomed to), the mind-bending tree-structured LISP machines, and Newell's pragmatic production machines.
Chapter 5, "Real Machines", might be better titled "Real Problems". Haugeland presents some of the brick walls that AI research has run into. These can be grouped into the phenomenon of the combinatorial explosion: in order to interact with the real world in a manner that demonstrates "common sense", an AI must have access to an impossibly large store of information (while accessing what it needs in due time), and be able to consider an equally impossibly large set of potential courses of action. (p. 178) Methods to restrict what the AI has to consider, such as the focus on "micro-worlds", result in a system with no sense. Haugeland acknowledges these problems, and offers nothing but hope in scientific and technological progress to answer them.
Chapter 6, "Real People", develops means by which the sense that humans exhibit, and machines are far from realizing. Dennett's intentional stances and Grice's conversational implicatures are intelligent-if partial-characterizations of perspicuous reasoning. They are, however, frustratingly slippery for computer programmers, so it's not surprising that Haugeland, with some exasperation, groups them together under the "nonasininity canon": "An enduring system makes sense to the extent that, as understood, it isn't making [a rear] of itself." (p. 219) I feel that, if a reader has followed the author this far, then he or she deserves better than this.
Yet Haugeland and his colleagues are bound to feel frustration. Computers are electromechanical in nature, while humans are neurochemical. Computers can engage in numerical calculation with speed and precision, while most people find mathematics to be their most difficult school subject. Computers are tools that we devised to assist us. Human behavior was forged in the four-billion cauldron of evolution, and psychologists have barely begun to sort out the seething stew of vestigial loves, hates, and motivations that shape our behavior. And honest cognitive science will admit that humans and supercomputers are each masters of two separate, very different worlds. At the end, Haugeland finally admits this possibility-without contemplating the alternatives to the computation theory of might that this possibility demands.
THE VERY BEST ON CLASSICAL AI.......2000-02-08
This is the very best book on classical AI. However, there's a catch, as classical AI has many pitfalls, such as the frame problem or the symbol grounding problem. But there are ways to overcome these pitfalls, and if you want to see what's really hot in AI today you should check out Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies.
A great exposition of the fundamentals and more........1999-03-22
This is a great exposition of the fundamental notions involved in the philosophy of AI. While at first look may appear like a good undergraduate read, it is, in fact, quite subtle and deep in most of the material it touches. Great scholarship.
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Title: Getting back to "the very idea".(American Association for Artificial Intelligence role in artificial intelligence)
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Date: December 22, 2005
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Volume: 26
Issue: 4
Page: 48(3)
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