Introduction: On Having a Mind of Your Own

• Published in: Artificial Intelligence and Creativity pp. 29 - 42
• Main Author: Dartnall, Terry
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1994
• Series: Studies in Cognitive Systems
• Subjects: Accessible Structure; Cognitive Science; Conceptual Space; Creative Process; Declarative Knowledge

Since the French Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century there has been a growing belief that people are machines. In 1745, the French physician and philosopher La Mettrie published The Natural History of the Soul. This brought him such official censure that he exiled himself in Holland. Two years l...