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Social Understanding [electronic resource] : On Hermeneutics, Geometrical Models and Artificial Intelligence / by Jürgen Klüver, Christina Klüver.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Theory and Decision Library A:, Rational Choice in Practical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science ; 47Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011Edition: 1st ed. 2011Description: VIII, 260 p. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048199112
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 004 23
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Contents:
1. INTRODUCTION: HISTORICAL, METHODICAL, AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMES -- 2. THE OPERATION CALLED "VERSTEHEN": CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT FORMAL -- SYSTEMATIZATIONS OF UNDERSTANDING -- 3. MENTAL MODELS, THE GEOMETRY OF MEANING GENERATION AND OF INFORMATION -- 4. THE UNDERSTANDING OF LEARNING -- 5. THE HUMAN FACTOR: UNDERSTANDING HUMANS BY ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS -- 6. CONCLUSIONS: AI AND A UNIFIED SCIENCE -- REFERENCES.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: The operation of understanding is the fundamental methodical procedure of hermeneutics and is usually seen as contradiction to scientific explanation by the usage of mathematical models. Yet understanding is the basic way in which humans organize their everyday practice, namely by understanding other people and social situations. In this book the authors demonstrate how an integration of hermeneutical understanding and scientific explanation can be done via the construction of suited geometrical models with neural networks of processes of understanding. In this sense the authors develop some kind of mathematical hermeneutics. Connecting links for the integration of the two methodical poles are the developments of particular models of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which are able to perform certain tasks of understanding.
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1. INTRODUCTION: HISTORICAL, METHODICAL, AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMES -- 2. THE OPERATION CALLED "VERSTEHEN": CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT FORMAL -- SYSTEMATIZATIONS OF UNDERSTANDING -- 3. MENTAL MODELS, THE GEOMETRY OF MEANING GENERATION AND OF INFORMATION -- 4. THE UNDERSTANDING OF LEARNING -- 5. THE HUMAN FACTOR: UNDERSTANDING HUMANS BY ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS -- 6. CONCLUSIONS: AI AND A UNIFIED SCIENCE -- REFERENCES.

The operation of understanding is the fundamental methodical procedure of hermeneutics and is usually seen as contradiction to scientific explanation by the usage of mathematical models. Yet understanding is the basic way in which humans organize their everyday practice, namely by understanding other people and social situations. In this book the authors demonstrate how an integration of hermeneutical understanding and scientific explanation can be done via the construction of suited geometrical models with neural networks of processes of understanding. In this sense the authors develop some kind of mathematical hermeneutics. Connecting links for the integration of the two methodical poles are the developments of particular models of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which are able to perform certain tasks of understanding.