Are thinking computers mathematically possible? [7]
Is it mathematically possible for a computer to think as well as a human can? Does the mathematics of computation contain anything to prohibit machines from thinking?
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The questions explored in
Map 7 – Are thinking computers mathematically possible? are:
- Is mechanistic philosophy valid?
- Does Gödel's theorem show that machines can't think?
- Does Gödel's theorem show that machines can't be conscious?
- Do mathematical theorems like Gödel's show that computers are intrinsically limited?
- Does Gödel's theorem show that mathematical insight is non-algorithmic?
- Can automata think?
- Is the Lucas argument dialectical?
- Can improved machines beat the Lucas argument?
- Is the use of consistency in the Lucas argument problematic?
- Other Lucas arguments