epistemology This is a study of the kinds of knowledge that are required for solving problems in the world.
Epistemology: the study of knowledge and its nature, possibility, and justification.
Epistemology, the study of knowledge, also makes contact with AI, as engineers find themselves debating similar questions to philosophers about how best to represent and use knowledge and information (e.g., semantic networks).
In epistemology, the prefix meta is used to mean about (its own category). Detailed cognitive, systemic and epistemic study and understanding of knowledge is required to distinguish methods and details for achieving knowledge about knowledge.
A thorough study of epistemology clearly shows the presence of the invariant organization & adaptation functions. These functions, broken into several mechanisms, provide a stable and effective means for learning in animals.
Gregory Jameson, director of machine epistemology and ontology at MIT. 'The Matrix taught us that we cannot ignore our obligation to the future of mankind.
"Plain Talk About Neurodevelopmental Epistemology," in Proceedings of the 5th Intl. Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, Mass., August, 1977.
So, this argument holds whether there are some conscious minds other than me (common sense) or not (solipsism). In that sense, it's about the ontology of mentality, not about epistemology (Searle 1993b).
 See also: Artificial intelligence, Knowledge, AI, Agent, Percept
  
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