在科技时代的今天，来自哲学、认知科学、神经生物学和人工智能领域的当代研究人员提出了许多关于身心本质的问题，这些问题起源于古希腊哲学。其中还有关于人与机器之间关系的问题，以及这对解决哲学中的传统问题的影响。在这本书中，“机器”一词被用来指代在当代世界中，试图使人类的任务更容易，甚至试图完全取代人类的每一个系统，例如能够执行不同物理活动以及各种心理活动的仿人机器人，如决策和解决问题。
这本书是走向教育中某些不同学科之间联系的第一步。神经化学、认知科学、神经生物学和其他迅速发展的学科与作为社会科学一部分的教育之间的差距，目前看来是巨大的，甚至是不可逾越的，除非通过类比、转喻和隐喻。从最近几年的经验来看，似乎很明显，现有的教育体系作为一个整体被视为一个病态的体系，无法满足其服务的大部分社会的需求。这本书带来了一种超越逻辑和修辞吸引力的学习形式。它以认知科学和人工智能方法为基础，考虑到学校系统是一个遵循动态系统理论的动态系统，定义了合适的体系结构。
本书展示了如何构建一个智能教学系统，以及一个基于该系统的智能教学系统。通过智能教学系统的使用，学生被置于一个积极的角色，而不是他们今天或多或少的被动角色。
Virtual Teacher: Cognitive Approach to E-learning Material
Today in the age of technology, contemporary researchers from the fields of philosophy, cognitive science, neurobiology, and artificial intelligence ask many questions about the nature of the mind and body, originating in ancient Greek philosophy. Among those, are also questions about the relationship between humans and machines, and the implications this carries for solving traditional problems within philosophy. In this book, the term ‘machine’ is taken to refer to every system which, in the contemporary world, tries to make a task easier for humans, or even tries to replace the human altogether, such as a humanoid robot able to perform different physical activities, as well as various mental activities, like decision-making and problem-solving.
The volume makes the first step towards a connection between certain different disciplines involved in education. The gap between neurochemistry, cognitive science, neurobiology and other rapidly developing disciplines, on one side, and education as part of social sciences, on the other, currently appears to be great and even unbridgeable except by analogy, metonymy and metaphor. From the experiences of recent years, it seems clear that the existing educational system, as a whole, is perceived as an ailing system that fails to meet the needs of a major portion of the society it serves. This book brings to attention a form of learning that transcends logic and rhetorical appeal. It defines appropriate architecture on the basis of cognitive science and methods of artificial intelligence, taking into account that a school system is a dynamical system which follows the dynamical systems theory.
The volume shows how to build an intelligent tutoring system, and an intelligent teaching/learning system upon it. Through the use of intelligent tutoring systems, students are placed in an active role, as opposed to the passive role that they more or less have today.
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