No rest for the nerd oh well

Been a bit quiet on the spacecog front lately - i blame facebook, moving to london, and British Telecom. Now then, back on message...

Bechtel and Abrahamsen's "Connectionism and the Mind" manages to consider connectionism both historically/up-to-the-present (place in cognitive science etc), and philosophically. Also the widest ranging discussion of connectionism i've read. Excellent.

Now working through Haikonen's "Robot Brains". Not that he is a robot or anything. Maybe a biobot, like the rest of us. Anyway I like this book - a synthetic approach to machine cognition; lots of clear diagrams and explanations of his associative mechanisms; considers many aspects of cognition; and has some sense of the philosophical issues that surround his chosen subject. More detail, and more interesting focus overall than in his 2003 book (<-which is maybe more suitable for Humanities faculty undergraduates reading around a new subject).