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Simulating the Mind

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Abstract

Technical systems support us in our daily life and have been improved ever since. Still the available systems today are not able to understand their environment in a way that is similar to human understanding. Enabling technical systems to interact with the real world and with human users in a more human-like way is a challenging research topic. To do so we need models of human abilities. We need to understand how humans perceive their environment, how knowledge about the environment is created, stored and accessed, how motility works, how decisions are taken and actions are executed. And we need technical translations of these models that allow us to implement them in a technical, not a biological way. This paper identifies principles and functions of the human psychic apparatus that make up a set of basic requirements for developing technical systems that can perceive and interact with the environment - including human beings - in a more human-like way.

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  1. Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, Austria

    Elisabeth Brainin

  2. Vienna University of Technology, Austria

    Gerhard Zucker

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  1. Institute of Computer Technology, University of Vienna, Austria

    Dietmar Dietrich , Gerhard Zucker  & Dietmar Bruckner ,  & 

  2. Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, Austria

    Georg Fodor

  3. University of Cape Town, South Africa

    Georg Fodor

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Brainin, E., Zucker, G. (2009). Session 4. In: Dietrich, D., Fodor, G., Zucker, G., Bruckner, D. (eds) Simulating the Mind. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-09451-8_8

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