The Mind of Parmenides

Parmenides is often portrayed as an esoteric philosopher, intent on exploring paradoxical models of the world, and expressing his thoughts in obscure language. The interpretation proposed in this book provides a very different perspective.

Far from negating or attributing fanciful properties to the real world, Parmenides outlines a pragmatic architecture for the human mind that is specifically intended to address the cognitive complexity of the real world. The architecture defines knowledge as the social system for the development and exchange of opinions about the world.

The ideas proposed by Parmenides are reflected in virtually all modern software systems. Artificial intelligence can also benefits form his insights into mind and social agents.