Fields Closely Related to AI

• Philosophy:
  
  • Logic, methods of reasoning
    
  • Mind as physical system
    
  • Foundations of learning, language, rationality
  
  
• Mathematics
  
  • Formal representation and proof
    
  • Algorithms, computation, (un)decidability, (in)tractability
    
  • Probability and statistics
  
  
• Psychology
  
  • Adaptation
    
  • Phenomena of perception and motor control
    
  • Experimental techniques (psychophysics, etc.)
  
  
• Economics: formal theory of rational decisions
  
  
• Linguistics: knowledge representation, grammar
  
  
• Neuroscience: physical substrate for mental activity
  
  
• Control theory:
  
  • homeostatic systems, stability
    
  • simple optimal agent designs