Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Summary and plan of the book
- Introduction
- 1 Logic on the Underground
- 2 The psychology of logic
- 3 The fox and the crow
- 4 Search
- 5 Negation as failure
- 6 How to become a British Citizen
- 7 The louse and the Mars explorer
- 8 Maintenance goals as the driving force of life
- 9 The meaning of life
- 10 Abduction
- 11 The Prisoner’s Dilemma
- 12 Motivations matter
- 13 The changing world
- 14 Logic and objects
- 15 Biconditionals
- 16 Computational Logic and the selection task
- 17 Meta-logic
- Conclusions of the book
- A1 The syntax of logical form
- A2 Truth
- A3 Forward and backward reasoning
- A4 Minimal models and negation
- A5 The resolution rule
- A6 The logic of abductive logic programming
- References
- Index
11 - The Prisoner’s Dilemma
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Summary and plan of the book
- Introduction
- 1 Logic on the Underground
- 2 The psychology of logic
- 3 The fox and the crow
- 4 Search
- 5 Negation as failure
- 6 How to become a British Citizen
- 7 The louse and the Mars explorer
- 8 Maintenance goals as the driving force of life
- 9 The meaning of life
- 10 Abduction
- 11 The Prisoner’s Dilemma
- 12 Motivations matter
- 13 The changing world
- 14 Logic and objects
- 15 Biconditionals
- 16 Computational Logic and the selection task
- 17 Meta-logic
- Conclusions of the book
- A1 The syntax of logical form
- A2 Truth
- A3 Forward and backward reasoning
- A4 Minimal models and negation
- A5 The resolution rule
- A6 The logic of abductive logic programming
- References
- Index
Summary
Suppose, in your desperation to get rich as quickly as possible, you consider the various alternatives, infer their likely consequences and decide that the best alternative is to rob the local bank. You recruit your best friend, John, well known for his meticulous attention to detail, to help you plan and carry out the crime. Thanks to your joint efforts, you succeed in breaking into the bank in the middle of the night, opening the safe and making your get-away with a cool million pounds (approximately 1.65 million dollars – and falling – at the time of writing) in the boot (trunk) of your car.
Unfortunately, years of poverty and neglect have left your car in a state of general disrepair, and you are stopped by the police for driving at night with only one headlight. In the course of a routine investigation, they discover the suitcase with the cool million pounds in the boot. You plead ignorance of any wrong doing, but they arrest you both anyway on the suspicion of robbery.
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- Computational Logic and Human ThinkingHow to Be Artificially Intelligent, pp. 144 - 154Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011