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| Problem solving: Problem solving is a cognitive skill that involves identifying and analyzing problems, developing and evaluating potential solutions, and implementing the best solution. See also Planning, Actions, Information processing, Cognition, Thinking, Knowledge._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Vannevar Bush on Problem Solving - Dictionary of Arguments
Brockman I 179 Problem solving/Vannevar Bush/Hillis: Vannevar Bush’s digital Differential Analyzer (…) could be reconfigured Brockman I 180 to match the structure of whatever problem it was given to solve but used digital signal encoding. Signals could be simplified to openly represent the relevant distinctions, allowing them to be more accurately communicated and stored. In digital signals, one needed only to preserve the difference in signals that made a difference. It is this distinction and signal coding that we commonly use to distinguish “analog” versus “digital.” >Analog/digital, >Distinctions. Digital signal encoding was entirely compatible with cybernetic thinking—in fact, enabling to it. What was constraining to cybernetics was the presumption of an analogy of structure between the controller and the controlled. >Cybernetics. By the 1930s, Kurt Gödel, Alonzo Church, and Alan Turing had all described universal systems of computation, in which the computation required no structural analogy to functions that were computed. These universal computers could also compute the functions of control. >A. Church, >K. Gödel, >A.M. Turing, >Functions. Hillis, D. W. “The First Machine Intelligences” in: Brockman, John (ed.) 2019. Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI. New York: Penguin Press._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Bush, Vannevar Brockman I John Brockman Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI New York 2019 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28