Artificial intelligence and the dialogical

Journal/Book: Amer Behav Sci. 1997; 40: 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Sage Publications Inc. 813-828.

Abstract: Workers in cognitive science and artificial intelligence assume that everything of importance to our intelligent functioning can be found inside the heads of individuals. This article takes a different approach. The nature of our disorderly, everyday, dialogical activities is first outlined, because it assumes that it is only in terms of this usually unnoticed background activity that we make sense of everything individual and distinctive we do in relation both to each other and to our larger surroundings: We constitute what we are pleased to call our individual minds and our world within it. Furthermore, it is in the unique variations that we each introduce into this constitutive activity that we can express ourselves, our own ''inner lives.'' Studies in cognitive science and artificial intelligence lead us not only to ignore these backgrounds but to institute forms of human relation leading to their eradication.

Note: Article Shotter J, Univ New Hampshire, Durham,NH 03824 USA

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