This good book contains good contributions from good researchers with good ideas. Its eight chapters, which spring from the seventh annual series of Darwin College Lectures (many of the authors make sometimes misguided efforts to connect their work to Darwin's), lightly and brightly cover a host of topics -- language, knowledge representation, inference -- that are of central importance to artificial intelligence. Neither the writing nor the ideas contained in its two hundred pages can be accused of being too thick or too thin; it reads like the three volume "An Invitation to Cognitive Science" series HLasnik90, JHollerbach90, ESmith90 and covers similar topics.
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