{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"A Society of Mind-Multiple Perspectives, Reasoned Assumptions, and Virtual Copies","authors":[{"name":"Jon Doyle","slug":"jon-doyle","given":"Jon","family":"Doyle","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Little i' clearly unrler stoo d about the similarities, dilferences, ·and comparative computational arHl representational adva ntages of the many proposals extant for organizing minds into collections of \"mental subagents .\" Using a new m at hematical framework for exactly specifying the structure of mental organizations, we formulate separately t-he ideas of multiple pe.·s pect.ivcs, reasoned assumptions, and virtual copies. WhP-n combined, thf'se notions form a conimon backbone for systems as diverse a.• CONLAN, NETL, and FOL, and show many particular characteristics of those systems results of the \"language of thought\" adopted for representing th e contents of mental subagents. The framework also sug~csts connections between the \"strengths\" of r;,ental attitud es, the ambiguity of \"self,\" and the possibilit.ies for selfon,niscicnce.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/72","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/0072.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/72.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/bibtex/72","volume":{"slug":"1983","title":"Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1983","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/","year":1983,"location":"Karlsruhe, West Germany","dates":"","editors":"Alan Bundy","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Knowledge Representation","track":"Knowledge Representation","number":72,"pages":{"first":309,"last":313},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}