4 The work of Herbert Simon on Artificial Intelligence
Much of what I have found to say in this book came about from my recent introduction by Richard Young into the life and work of Herbert A. Simon. Especially, what I have to say arises from my questioning some of Simon’s presumptions about cognition that I found in reading Simon’s two books: Administrative behavior: A study of decision making processes in administrative organizations and The Sciences of the artificial. Each book deals with the limits of rationality and about the problems of dealing with complexity. It is his emphasis on the differences between the conceptions of human artifice and sufficing, and his work on the different modes of human problem solving, especially in using ...
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