Knowing how the robot works

If a robot looked and behaved like a human, it would be rational to explain its actions in terms of intentionality. But if we knew it acted on the basis of formal symbol manipulations we'd no longer appeal to intentionality to explain its behaviour.

John Searle 1980a. 1980b, 1990b.
RELATED ARTICLESExplain
Artificial Intelligence
Can computers think? [1]
Yes: physical symbol systems can think [3]
The Chinese Room Argument [4]
The Combination Reply
Knowing how the robot works
John Searle
Graph of this discussion
Enter the title of your article


Enter a short (max 500 characters) summation of your article
Enter the main body of your article
Lock
+Comments (0)
+Citations (0)
+About
Enter comment

Select article text to quote
welcome text

First name   Last name 

Email

Skip