Attitudes, Chaos, And The Connectionist Mind

This book presents a broad ranging and fascinating examination of attitudes: how we form them, how we organize them towards others. Beginning with more traditional views of attitudes from the philosophy of Hume through early psychological writings to more recent research in connectionism and cognitive science, the author argues that human attitudes should not be regarded as simple evaluative judgments but rather as part of a more complex dynamic system.

This book presents a broad-ranging and fascinating examination of attitudes: how we form them; how we organize them towards others; and whether they are inherently human or could also be developed by computers. Professor Eiser suggests there are fundamental objections to the idea of a computer having a sense of self or a set of attitutdes.