Mind Society and Human Action: A Theory of Social Economy
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The mind-society problem. 3. Human reasoning and decision making. 4. The prospects for the social economy in a changing world. 5. Sufficiency economy: a happiness development approach. 6. The notion of economic man played a central role. 7. The opening of the human mind. 8. Opening the contemplative mind in the classroom. 9. Vygotsky\'s plural discourse on the human mind. 10. Classical pragmatism on mind and rationality. 11. Games mind and learning. 12. Conceptual foundations of social cognition. 13. Consecration and human action: the moral life as response. 14. The entropy theory of human mind. 15. Action awareness and the active mind. 16. Mind reading, deception and the evolution. Bibliography. Index.
As writers such as Brooks have argued, building large complex minds is difficult because we do not understand what the necessary components of the mind are or how they should interact. Even if the components and their interactions were known, it is difficult to see a situation where a single lab would have all the necessary expertise and manpower to be able to build the mind. A solution is to distribute the problem between all interested parties, each of whom can solve part of the problem, and then provide a way for the independently developed components to interact with each-other. The world-wide-mind project suggests such a scheme and this paper describes the first implementation where a society of mind. (jacket)
As writers such as Brooks have argued, building large complex minds is difficult because we do not understand what the necessary components of the mind are or how they should interact. Even if the components and their interactions were known, it is difficult to see a situation where a single lab would have all the necessary expertise and manpower to be able to build the mind. A solution is to distribute the problem between all interested parties, each of whom can solve part of the problem, and then provide a way for the independently developed components to interact with each-other. The world-wide-mind project suggests such a scheme and this paper describes the first implementation where a society of mind. (jacket)
