The problem of consciousness has captured the imagination of philosophers, neuroscientists, and the general public, but has received little attention within AI. However, concepts ...
In this paper we describe Towel, a task management application that couples a user’s to-do list with a software personal assistant. This to-do list provides a unified environmen...
Many AI researchers and cognitive scientists have argued that analogy is the core of cognition. The most influential work on computational modeling of analogy-making is Structure ...
The problem of consciousness has been divided by philosophers into the problem of Access Consciousness and the problem of Phenomenal Consciousness or "raw feel". In this ...
Why do people create extra representations to help them make sense of situations, diagrams, illustrations, instructions and problems? The obvious explanation-external representatio...