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Author Grim, Patrick.

Title The philosophical computer : exploratory essays in philosophical computer modeling / Patrick Grim, Gary Mar, and Paul St. Denis, with the Group for Logic and Formal Semantics.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1998]
©1998

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 321 pages) : illustrations
text file PDF
Physical Medium polychrome
Series Bradford book.
Note "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-318) and index.
Contents From the bivalent liar to dynamical semantics -- The simple liar in infinite-valued logic -- Some quasi-paradoxical sentences -- The chaotic and logistic Liars -- Chaotic dualists and strange attractors -- Fractals in the semantics of paradox -- The triplist and three-dimensional attractors -- Philosophical and metalogical applications -- Toward a simple model: some basic concepts -- Self-reference and reputation: the simplest cases -- Epistemic dynamics with multiple inputs -- Tangled reference to reputation -- The example of tic-tac-toe -- 'Rug' enumeration images -- Tautology fractals -- The Sierpinski triangle: a paradoxical introduction -- A Sierpinski tautology map -- Value solids and multi-valued logics -- Cellular automata in value space -- The prisoner's dilemma -- Classical strategies in iteration -- Generosity in an imperfect world -- Spatialization of the prisoner's dilemma -- A note on some deeper strategies -- Greater generosity in an imperfect spatial world -- Real life -- Chaotic currents in real life -- Real-valued prisoner's dilemmas -- PAVLOV and other two-dimensional strategies -- Cooperative chaos in infinite-valued logic -- The problem of discrimination -- Continuity in cooperation, the 'veil of ignorance', and forgiveness -- Undecidability and the prisoner's dilemma -- Two abstract machines -- Computation and undecidability in competitive cellular automata -- Computation and undecidability in the spatialized prisoner's dilemma.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Philosophy -- Computer simulation.
Philosophy -- Computer simulation.
Philosophy.
Logic -- Computer simulation.
Logic -- Computer simulation.
Logic.
Philosophy -- Data processing.
Philosophy -- Data processing.
Logic -- Data processing.
Logic -- Data processing.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Mar, Gary.
St. Denis, Paul.
Other Form: Print version: Grim, Patrick. Philosophical computer. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998 0262071851 (DLC) 97039498 (OCoLC)37499957
ISBN 9780585036878 (electronic book)
058503687X (electronic book)
9780262071857 (hc ; alkaline paper)
0262071851 (hc ; alkaline paper)
0262274337
9780262274333