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title: "A Society of Mind-Multiple Perspectives, Reasoned Assumptions, and Virtual Copies"
authors:
  - "Jon Doyle"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/72"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/0072.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1983
pages: "309-313"
track: "Knowledge Representation"
keywords:
---

# A Society of Mind-Multiple Perspectives, Reasoned Assumptions, and Virtual Copies

Jon Doyle

*Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 309-313.

## 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.