Minds and Computers: An Introduction to AI by Matt Carter | Issue 68 | Philosophy Now - 0 views
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his main concern is to outline and defend the possibility of a computational theory of mind.
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there can be systems which display (and so have) mentality simply in virtue of instantiating certain computer programs – but that on the other hand, our best available programs are ‘woefully inadequate’ to that task.
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For students of artificial intelligence (AI), the book explains very clearly why the whole artificial intelligence project presupposes substantive and controversial answers to some traditional philosophical questions.
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One central problem for artificial intelligence is how to get aboutness into computer programs – how to get semantics out of syntactics.
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Visual experience is beyond merely having certain physical inputs in the forms of light waves, undergoing certain transformations in the brain and producing physical outputs such as speaking the sentence “There is something red.”
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He needs to explain how he thinks a computational account can be provided of qualia; or he needs to abandon a qualia-based account of experience, in favour of some computational account; or he needs to abandon his conclusion that there is no objection in principle to a purely computational account of the mind.