Focus : Achieving Your Highest Priorities

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The Focus workshop presents an engaging and inspirational learning experience and will change your life in ways you never thought possible.

With this audiobook, you will begin a process and journey to a new way of thinking about personal and professional focus and accomplishment. You'll learn how to identify -- and focus -- on the tasks and priorities that matter most so that you can deliver maximum results every day.

You'll learn to turn the things you have to do into the things you want to do. Dr. Covey and master facilitator Steve Jones introduce you to the FranklinCovey workshop that has already helped 10 million people become more productive.

With this audiobook, you'll also receive these valuable tools from FranklinCovey:

A handy job-aid on Keeping Your Focus, designed to carry with you to remind you how to stay focused and achieve results
A Resource CD-ROM packed with great tools such as teaching wizards to help you identify your values and mission and how to set goals
A free 30-day trial of FranklinCovey's PlanPlus™ for Microsoft® Outlook®
A screensaver of 200+inspirational quotes

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Must have for if you purchase the Franklin Planner.......2007-06-06

A litle background

I used the paper based Franklin Planner about a decade ago and did a career shift to where I was using company software for all my contact work along with an appointment calendar. B/c of that - I scrapped the Planner and used a palm pilot for all my phone numbers. At the time - I had taken the full day live course for a few hundred bucks and found it invaluable in understanding "how to" use the nuts and bolts of priorities / daily lists / sharpen saw features / etc.

Things changed professionally for me - and I wanted to revisit the Planner to see if it would be valuable to me again today. I purchased some filler pages for my old planner binder and tried to get back in the swing of things and see if the Planner would be useful to me now. I didn't want to spend the money on "the live course" again - but wanted to get refreshed. I read a few Covey books I had in my personal library - but they were more or less conceptual and didn't really go through the use of his planner beyond generalitites. I found out that this new and updated program might fill in the gaps and the price was right so I tried it.

***** I AM VERY HAPPY AUDIO PROGRAAM *****. So far, I've listened to the first 3 disks and they are pretty much a recording of a live trainer giving their seminars. It does a very thorough job of walking you through the areas of evaluating and writing your guiding p;rinciples / how to effectively plan weekly and daily with a system like this / how to select and prioritize tasks for each day ( things like don't ever schedule more than 65 % of yoru day in daily tasks ) - as well as documenting and note retreival.

The focus of the seminar CD's is on a paper based planner - but he gives enough theory to integrate paper and electronic if you're interested in that.

I just got this program and have listened to the first 3 disks ( live seminar recording ). There is a workbook and CD - Rom along with it that I have not used - it's worth adding - I'll update my review.

In my opinion - this is pretty close to the same content that you'll get out of a seminar - and if want to learn the Franklin Planner system - this program OR - the seminar is "A MUST". There is an online tutorial of the basics on Franklin Covey site - but the content in Seminar and / or this program is really needed to really use it effectively.

Huge Benefit if you find your day slipping away...........2007-04-16

When I became responsible for managing 50 people a few years back, I had finally hit a wall. I could no longer knock out the day to day tasks and still focus on the long-term needs of my division. I went into a FC store and bought a planner. Luckily for me the sales person strongly recommend I pick up this tape also. A planner is great but this book really helped me use my planner effectively and do more then knock out the days tasks. Another side benefit, it improved my relationship with my wife, there is quite abit about work/life balance in this CD and taught me to take 5-10 minutes and focus on my wife along with work.

Focus: Achieving Your Highest Priorities.......2006-08-30

Good content, helps to have a background in the Franklin Covey system.

Extremely Helpful!.......2005-06-10

This audio series has been extremely helpful to me in getting a better understanding of Covey's principles regarding time management and prioritization. After reading his book "First Things First," I felt I needed an additional resource to grasp fully the principles he was presenting. This audio series accomplished that very situation.

For the price, this CD series is an excellent bargain. I recommend it highly for anyone wanting to get a basic understanding of Covey's life-changing techniques.

Great Overview of Franklin Covey Principles.......2004-01-26

During my initial first few minutes of listening I realized that Stephen Covey wasn't the main speaker on this tape (he narrates some sections). Suddenly I thought maybe the quality would be mediocre. That this would be some cranked out product just to make a buck. I was wrong. I listened to all 3 CD's (the 4th is a computer demo) and enjoyed the presentation highly.

Steve Jones is the person who gives presentation. I believe it is a recorded live process. What I liked about this alot is it covered all of the Franklin Covey time management principles in a very focussed manner (hence the title...??).

This CD series serves as an excellent refresher or introduction to the principles of managing your time. They introduce the time quadrants and explain in pretty good detail how to use paper, PDA or computer planners to manage your time. The sessions never bog down in any one area and they move from topic to topic at just about the right pace.

Obviously this CD set has some ties to the services and courses offered by Franklin Covey. They'd love it if you registered for the full course or bought a $200 planner/binder. However the course on tape/CD will standalone quite well. The speaker is clear and has a good delivery. I enjoyed this and found the time passed quickly (which doesn't always happen) as I was listening. Buy this - you won't be sorry!

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Multiple regression analysis has been widely used by researchers to analyze complex social problems since the 1950s. A specialization in economics, known as econometrics, developed out of a recognition that multiple regression is based upon a large number of assumptions--many of which are commonly violated in specific applications. Econometricians developed tests for violations of the regression model assumptions, as well as a variety of corrective measures for estimating regression models in the presence of many of the violations. Unfortunately, the mathematical sophistication required to understand the econometrics literature started out high and has continued to rise over the years. As a consequence, an understanding of the assumptions of the regression model, tests for violations, and corrective estimation approaches have failed to permeate widely many other policy-related disciplines such as political science, social work, public administration, and sociology. One of the key objectives of this book is to translate the results from the econometrics literature into language that policy analysts from other disciplines can understand easily. A second objective is to present a discussion of so-called limited-dependent variable models. One of the assumptions of the regression model is that the dependent variable is measured on an interval scale. But often the dependent variable of interest is discrete or categorical. Whether someone is in poverty or, whether they are working full-time, part-time, or out of the labor force, marital status--all are examples of categorical variables that might be of policy interest. Moreover, the growing availability of large-scale public use data sets containing information on individuals and families has heightened the relevance of categorical variables in policy analysis. The mathematical preparation required to understand procedures for estimating categorical models is, however, even more daunting than that for fully understanding and using the regression model. As with the theoretical development of the regression model, most presentations of categorical models, such as Logit and Probit, are to be found in econometric literature. Moreover, this literature offers little in the way of practical advice on how to estimate and interpret model results. This book is the first to present a detailed and accessible discussion of multiple regression and limited-dependent variable models in the context of policy analysis. As such it will be an invaluable resource for most scholars, researchers, and students in the social and behavioral sciences.

Statistical Models for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Multiple Regression and Limited-Dependent Variable Models

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Statistical Models for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Multiple Regression and Limited-Dependent Variable Models
William H. Crown
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OR28P4

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Macroeconomics For Developing Countries textbook provides an introduction to the subjects of macro-economic management and stabilization policy which have become increasingly important for developing countries in recent years. There are significant structural, institutional and behavioural differences between developed and developing economies. The authors have combined elements of standard macro-economic theory and the findings of empirical research to offer a macro-economic framework which is used to examine problems like inflation, unemployment and balance of payments fluctuations. They also include an evaluation of the use of stabilization policies which are particularly relevant to developing countries.

Macroeconomics For Developing Countries : An Introductory Text

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Macroeconomics For Developing Countries : An Introductory Text
Paul Cook Colin Kirkpatrick
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTG1DM

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From the first tee to the nineteenth hole, here's a collection of above-par cartoons and comic strips featuring favorite cartoon characters on the links, in the rough, and out of luck when it comes to the game of golf.

Includes eagle shot entries from such beloved cartoons as:

Calvin & Hobbes
Peanuts
Garfield
Beetle Bailey
In the Bleachers
The Wizard of Id
and many more!

Customer Reviews:

Title for my review.......2007-07-28

Funny look at golfing. One has to have a sense of humor to
play the game anyway and these cartoons show the humorous
truisms associated with the "game."

Great Little Golf Book.......2005-06-05

This is a great little golf book with a great group of golf cartoons covering just about every aspect of the game. I produce a newsletter for our local club and I intend to use some of the material in the book in our monthly publication. Neat book and really good price.

Golf Cartoons Really Hit Home.......2005-06-04

This book "Just Fore Laughs" is filled with delightful cartoons about the world of golf. I think everybody that plays the game of golf will find him/her self in one or more sections of the book. The quotations that go with cartoons are cute and appropriate for the cartoon ... for example, the section on Seniors shows Beetle Bailey's General Halftrack leaping out of bed and proclaiming that he feels young and strong and that nothing will stop him from succeeding on this day while his wife stays in bed and says "You're playing golf, right?" The quotation accompanying the cartoon is by Michael de Montaigne and says "Let us take care that age does not make more wrinkles on our spirit than on our face." Another cartoon is Jeff MacNelly's Shoe hitting his ball into a water hazard while his fiend says his swing is instant bogey ... just add water. The accompanying quotation is from Henry Wassworth Longfellow .. "From the waterfall he named her, Minnehaha, Laughing Water." This is a gift type book and it's pretty thick for its' type with more that 150 pages and a lot or golf cartoons. It's priced very well at $14.95 so it makes a great gift for anybody that plays golf and realizes how absurd the game can be sometimes.

Ham 'n' Egg on Golf : Why Won't This Game Just Leave Us Alone?

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How Ham & Egg drove me to bankruptcy in 5 easy steps....

Ham 'n' Egg on Golf : Why Won't This Game Just Leave Us Alone?
Dan "Egg" Miller , and Brad "Ham" Nelson
Manufacturer: Whole in One Golf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0967845327

Book Description

Syndicated golf columnists Brad "Ham" Nelson and Dan "Egg" Miller offer lighthearted yet insightful commentary on the game as played by 99.9% of the golfing population. Includes columns on such topics as "Spousal Negotiations," "Is There a Golf God?" and "Three Rules Worth Bending." Ham 'n' Egg also travel the globe, providing a warped perspective on everything from Augusta to St. Andrews to a 15-hole track called Westchester, located directly in the flight path of the Los Angeles airport. And with a clear eye, they write from the heart about such matters as "Love and Addiction," "Guilt," "Frustration," "Cheating," "Lies" and "Fairness." In all, this book contains over 200 pages of humor and observations about the game loved and occasionally hated by millions.

Customer Reviews:

How Ham & Egg drove me to bankruptcy in 5 easy steps...........2000-08-19

Brad and Dan do an excellent job of telling their golf story. I just simply couldn't put it down. Hack Looper is a classic! I do believe FootJoy/Titleist's Sign Boy is meant to copy H&E's Hack persona.

Since I discovered their site, shortly after they linked up with Rivals.com, I have gone into golf overdrive. Money has been no object (well, actually it has, but its just money!). These guys are bonifide equipment junkies, and the disease spreads quickly.

If you love golf, this is a book for you. None of that starchy nonsense you read each month in Golf and Golf Digest. This is as good as a pured 3 iron onto an island green! Once you go Ham & Egg, you'll never go back!

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Golf: It's Just a Game
Bruce Lansky
Manufacturer: Meadowbrook
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0684020092

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A Gift of Laughter for Every Golfer

This book contains the funniest comments ever made about golf by Lee Trevino, Arnold Palmer, Harvey Penick, Bob Hope, Buddy Hackett, Lewis Grizzard, Gerald Ford, and others. You'll also find clever cartoons by David Harbaugh, Bob Zahn, Lo Linkert, Joe Kohl, and others. There's a smile on every page.

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Golf: It Isn't Just a Game. My 65 Years as Caddy and Starter at the Waynesville Country Club, Waynesville, North Carolina
Old Bud Mull
Manufacturer: Snowglobe Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0971388601

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I Just Claim to Love the Game: Where Golf and Life Converge
Father Trey Nelson
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1420893505

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"In life, as in this game, when we give into the drive to do more, to do it as quickly as possible, and to cram as much into one day as we possibly can, then it would seem to me that it's time to slow down. Changes need to be made if we are going to survive, and not only survive but enjoy living. My life came to a screeching halt in June of 2004. I was just bee-boppin' along, minding my own business, doing my job, doing my job, and, oh yes, doing my job. Golf? Well, at that point in my life I had not swung a club in over a year. And, as far as my boat goes? It had been sitting under my carport, untouched for over a year, just like my golf clubs. Then one day I sat down, took a bite of my lunch, and BAM! The food stopped right at the center of my chest and refused to go down. The pain was the worst thing I had ever experienced in my entire life. A week or so later I went in for some tests, and the doctor told me that I had a golf-ball-size tumor in my esophagus, right where the esophagus meets the stomach. (Oh, the irony.) Seven months of chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery later, my entire outlook on life was different. The surgery, commonly called an esophagectomy, was suppose to be very major to begin with. The fact that there were complications during surgery and the two or three days after brought me close to death's door and inflicted an incredible amount of trauma to my body. Ask anyone now, and they'll tell you that I'm a walking miracle. I am not anywhere near understanding how this experience has changed me, but I do see myself doing everything, and I mean everything much more slowly. I don't feel as rushed or preoccupied when I'm with people as I did before. I tend to speak and preach more slowly. I pray more slowly and deliberately, whether alone or with my congregation. And, yes, I play golf three times a week now, go to the range once a week, and I play slow enough to enjoy it. And all the while, I actually do see myself getting

Relax, It's Just a Game: Relaxation in the Art of Golf

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Best Golf Book of the Year!

Relax, It's Just a Game: Relaxation in the Art of Golf
Mark A. Marshall
Manufacturer: PublishAmerica
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1413757626

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This book is a compilation of simple methods to relax and reach your own potential as a golfer. These techniques range from attitude to swing mechanics. This simple and easy-to-understand approach allows you to better understand your own unique abilities. Mark has used techniques in this book in teaching and coaching hundreds of golfers successfully since 1990.

Customer Reviews:

Best Golf Book of the Year!.......2005-02-08

Truly an inspiring and awesome read. I highly recommend this book. For a first work of a writer, it can be beat!!

First Tee teaches kids more than just golf: Skills needed in game of life emphasized. (Golf Links).: An article from: Arkansas Business

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First Tee teaches kids more than just golf: Skills needed in game of life emphasized. (Golf Links).: An article from: Arkansas Business
Alicia H. Smith
Manufacturer: Journal Publishing, Inc.
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Arkansas Business, published by Journal Publishing, Inc. on March 25, 2002. The length of the article is 1212 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: First Tee teaches kids more than just golf: Skills needed in game of life emphasized. (Golf Links).
Author: Alicia H. Smith
Publication: Arkansas Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 25, 2002
Publisher: Journal Publishing, Inc.
Volume: 19 Issue: 12 Page: S8(2)

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Golf: just a game? Get serious! (includes related article): An article from: Association Management

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Golf: just a game? Get serious! (includes related article): An article from: Association Management
Raymond Souster
Manufacturer: American Society of Association Executives
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This digital document is an article from Association Management, published by American Society of Association Executives on June 1, 1995. The length of the article is 2618 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Golf can be more than just a sport to association executives. Golf is a game that hones business skills, as it requires careful planning like business management. The game also allows executives to gain insights about their partners and even themselves which they can use to their organization's advantage later. This is bacause the manner in which an executive approaches golf is an indication of his business style.

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Title: Golf: just a game? Get serious! (includes related article)
Author: Raymond Souster
Publication: Association Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 1995
Publisher: American Society of Association Executives
Volume: v47 Issue: n6 Page: p81(7)

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Golf: It's Just a Game

Manufacturer: Meadowbrook Press
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The story of Irish music and its influence at home and overseas. Nuala O'Connor provides a superb account of the history of Irish music, from its origins in rural Irish communities to reinvention in America, and return home to a new generation of musicians. This is a beautiful history of the world's favorite music.

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Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars is the first cultural and industrial history of early television stardom. Susan Murray argues that television stars were central to the growth and development of American broadcasting. They were used not only to promote programs and the sale of television sets and advertised consumer goods, but also to established network identities. Through profiles of well-known performers including Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, and Lucille Ball, she shows how the television industry gave birth to the idea of TV stars and established a system of star production and management notably different from the Hollywood star system of the studio era.

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excellent example of accountability over expectation

History proved Dreyfus right

What AI researchers can't do on computers - yet

A response to Jeffrey Shallit.

Creation science applied to artificial intelligence

What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason
Hubert L. Dreyfus
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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ASIN: 0262540673

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When it was first published in 1972, Hubert Dreyfus's manifesto on the inherent inability of disembodied machines to mimic higher mental functions caused an uproar in the artificial intelligence community. The world has changed since then. Today it is clear that "good old-fashioned AI," based on the idea of using symbolic representations to produce general intelligence, is in decline (although several believers still pursue its pot of gold), and the focus of the Al community has shifted to more complex models of the mind. It has also become more common for AI researchers to seek out and study philosophy. For this edition of his now classic book, Dreyfus has added a lengthy new introduction outlining these changes and assessing the paradigms of connectionism and neural networks that have transformed the field.

At a time when researchers were proposing grand plans for general problem solvers and automatic translation machines, Dreyfus predicted that they would fail because their conception of mental functioning was naive, and he suggested that they would do well to acquaint themselves with modern philosophical approaches to human beings. What Computers Can't Do was widely attacked but quietly studied. Dreyfus's arguments are still provocative and focus our attention once again on what it is that makes human beings unique.

Hubert L. Dreyfus, who is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, is also the author of Being-in-the-World. A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division I.

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excellent example of accountability over expectation .......2007-09-21

I would love to see a working "HAL", and still hope we progress in the development in AI. However, the discovery of a General Problem Solver has always been elusive, and never matched the corresponding development for the raw physical abilities our computers now have. Why is that? And why is this still true?

Mr. Dreyfuss attempts to answer this with a refreshing accountability of the scientific method. He compares the historical development of AI to the theoretical expectations, and apparently not without resistance. He manages to challenge the "salesmanship" of following trends, and thus avoiding assumed results.

The book provides many examples of its logic, and carefully draws the conclusions. When I first read it I was tremendously impressed with its (if I may) "insights". I feel it is a must read; not just for those in the AI world, but for those interested in the scientific method as well.

History proved Dreyfus right.......2006-03-01

Mr. Shallit, in a previous review, sounds exactly like a throwback to the previous era when glorified computer technicians started to take themselves seriously and bestowed upon themselves the bogus title of "computer scientists". When Dreyfus critique of strong AI came out they were enraged that someone was trying to punch the air (and as it turned out it was full of hot air) out of their over inflated clown balloon. After decades of sheer nonsense, and of confusing metaphor with the real thing (their preposterous proposition of the "complexity critical mass" for intelligence is akin to thinking that a sufficiently complex computer simulation of an atomic explosion will actually explode: I guess we should all be really worried...) strong AI proponents just gave up. Now they are much quiet and many have given Dreyfus some concessions after being proven completely wrong (old habits die slowly). No serious GCT (Glorified Computer Technician) of today would profess faith in strong AI.

What AI researchers can't do on computers - yet.......2002-09-24

Dreyfus' book is about the history of failure of Artificial Intelligence researchers such as Marvin Minsky to embody intelligence at the human level. It is easy to read, but is rather exasperating. It is like riding in a truck driven by Minsky, and other AI researchers, where they are trying to make a long trek across a country without roads. They keep getting caught in swamps, blowing tires, and hitting trees, all the time shouting "We're almost there!" Meanwhile Dreyfus is a dog in the bed of the truck continually barking at dangers, and the folly of the drivers. Amidst Dreyfus' continuous cacophony of sarcastic cynicism there are some important points on what assumptions are doomed to failure, which he made quite clear by tedious repetition.

Basically there are two types of mistakes made by Minsky and many others:
1. believing they were getting close to understanding human thought,
2. repeatedly announcing same to the world.

The philosophy of Dreyfus in the first 300 pages is largely concerned with fallacious assumptions made by AI researchers. Finally in the last 50 pages (350 page book) he settles down and gives us some interesting concepts that should be understood if we are to seek AI at the human level. He develops the concept of "nonformal behavior" - which we humans usually learn by generalizing examples and following intuition without use of formal rules. Examples: chess at the gestalt master level, and disambiguation of broken sentences.

Dreyfus acknowledges the possible importance of neural network architectures, but dismisses them as outside the scope of his critique. He touches on the poor idea of AI trying to program a full functioning adult, and further carries out a critique of machine learning ("reinforcement learning").

The most important point he makes is that of nonformal behavior -- the non-logical almost Zen-like process that humans must go through. The irony is that we have to struggle with our nonformal thinking to do simple formal tasks such as long division; whereas the computer must struggle with its built-in hard logic to attempt nonformal tasks such as pattern recognition.

The book is for the most part quite dated, but nevertheless, it is very worthwhile reading for anyone in a serious pursuit of machine intelligence. My criticism of his style is just that. I have only a minor criticism of the intelligent content and his restrictions in scope.

A response to Jeffrey Shallit........2000-11-25

Mr. Shallit compares the critique of cognitive science by Professor Dreyfus to 'creation science'. He remarks that Dreyfus is not a computer scientist. This is true. But many 'cognitive scientists' aren't either, cognitive science being an interdisciplinary pursuit engaging philosophers, psychologists, linguists, neuroscientists, anthropologists and sociologists. It is unfortunate that Dreyfus allowed himself to polemicize by using the word 'alchemy' to characterize his opponents, but he has, by far, been the victim of unargued diatribes against his work. The fact is: most of the salient issues in cognitive science are logical and conceptual, NOT technological. Here, Dreyfus broke new ground (although I would have preferred his treatment to have been more Wittgensteinian than Heideggerian). Phil Agre's brilliant book on computation and human experience (Agre IS a computer scientist) shows that SOME AI-workers have found aspects of Dreyfus's work very telling. But, of course, the issues are, again, not empirical but logical in this field. See, for example, Graham Button et al., "Computers, Minds and Conduct" (Polity/Blackwell, 1995) which picks up where Dreyfus left off. Shallit remarks that Dreyfus has been 'refuted': where? by whom?

The fact is that cognitivism is hotly contested by serious thinkers in many disciplines, but Shallit's name-calling (and the comparison of cognitivism's serious critics to creation scientists) smacks of an abdication from serious engagement and argument.

Dreyfus's revised edition is a fine piece of work, worthy of serious intellectual discussion and confrontation. His many aarguments against Fodor, Chomsky, Simon and others have great merit. It is unfortunate that some folks simply close their eyes and argue from authority. But appeals to (even 'scientific') authority wear thin when left to stand alone!!

Creation science applied to artificial intelligence.......2000-11-19

Creation science is to evolution what this book is to artificial intelligence.

Creation "scientists" often have no credentials in the field they attack; similarly, Dreyfus is a philosopher, not a computer scientist.

Creation "scientists" often use inflated rhetoric and impute dishonesty to their opponents; similarly, Dreyfus has likened AI to alchemy and made scandalous allegations against AI researchers such as Simon.

Creation "scientists" only attack evolution; they do not provide any scientific alternative; similarly, Dreyfus only attacks strong AI and does not offer any alternative line of research.

The criticisms of creation "scientists" are based on religion; Dreyfus bases his critique on philosophy. Neither critique has any scientific foundation.

Creation "scientists" continue to advance objections that have been decisively refuted, such as arguments based on the Second Law of Thermodynamics or the bogus Paluxy River tracks. Bogus claims are rarely retracted. Similarly, Dreyfus has rarely acknowledged that many of his previous claims have been refuted.

Finally, creation "scientists" have had essentially no impact on evolutionary biology, but great impact among the lay public. Similarly, Dreyfus' book is popular among non-scientists, but has had very little impact among people who actually do AI.

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What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason
Hubert L. Dreyfus
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J53IPK

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