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David Chalmers
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Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and director of the Centre for Consciousness at ANU, and Professor of Philosophy and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at NYU.
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Artificial Intelligence »
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial IntelligenceâA collaboratively editable version of Robert Horns brilliant and pioneering debate map Can Computers Think?âexploring 50 years of philosophical argument about the possibility of computer thought.âF1CEB7
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ProtagonistsâThe contributions of over 300 protagonists can be explored via a surname search, or using the growing list developing here.âD3B8AB
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David Chalmers
David ChalmersâDistinguished Professor of Philosophy and director of the Centre for Consciousness at ANU, and Professor of Philosophy and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at NYU.âD3B8AB
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Online Papers on Consciousness »
Online Papers on Consciousness
Online Papers on ConsciousnessâThis is a directory of 7681 free online papers on consciousness in philosophy and in science, and of related topics in the philosophy of mind. The papers in this directory are drawn from PhilPapers, a database of both online and offline works in philosophy.âFFB597
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Implementable in functional system »
Implementable in functional system
Implementable in functional systemâProperly organized functional states generate consciousness. Such organization exists in the brain and can be built into computers as well.âFFFACD
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The fading qualia thought experiment »
The fading qualia thought experiment
The fading qualia thought experimentâChalmers imagines an experiment in which a persons neurons are slowly replaced one by one with silicon chips; arguing that the persons qualiaâthe subjective feelings that accompany perceptions and sensationsâremain the same (see detailed text).âFFFACD
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Rational cognitive systems have correct beliefs »
Rational cognitive systems have correct beliefs
Rational cognitive systems have correct beliefsâSubjects radically mistaken about their experiences are irrational. Rational systemsâwith unimpaired cognitive mechanismsâwont make big errors about conscious experiences. Substituting silicon chips for neurons shouldnt change this rationality.âFFFACD
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ACME doesn't understand analogy »
ACME doesn't understand analogy
ACME doesn't understand analogyâAll ACME does is take algebraic sentences in predicate logic notaiton and compare them. For example, it only understands that Socrates is like a midwife to the extent that it understands that (a(b)), (c(d)) is similar to (A(B)), (C(D)).âFFFACD
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Front-end assumption is dubious »
Front-end assumption is dubious
Front-end assumption is dubiousâModels that use pre-configured representations and hand-tailored data assume that a separate front-end module could be built that would filter sensory data into the models representational form.âFFFACD
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All encompassing representations can't be processed »
All encompassing representations can't be processed
All encompassing representations can't be processedâThe all purpose representation a front-end module would provide to a computer model would have to encode a vast amount of information, enough to adapt to all contexts and analogies it might be used inâmaking it too bulky for efficient processing.âFFFACD
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Perception depends on analogy »
Perception depends on analogy
Perception depends on analogyâHow we see things depends in part on what high level analogical processes we useâeg Saddam Hussein will be perceived differently depending on whether he is viewed as analogous to Adolf Hitler (ruthless aggressor) or Robin Hood (generous crusader).âFFFACD
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Analogies only drawn from pre-structured representations »
Analogies only drawn from pre-structured representations
Analogies only drawn from pre-structured representationsâSME creates analogies using high-level representations that are strucured with those specific analogies in mind. Its behaviour provides no evidence for intelligence because the analogies it discovers are already built into the data it works with.âFFFACD
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Front-end assumption is dubious »
Front-end assumption is dubious
Front-end assumption is dubiousâModels that use pre-configured representations and hand-tailored data assume that a separate front-end module could be built that would filter sensory data into the models representational form.âFFFACD
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SME too rigid in its distinctions »
SME too rigid in its distinctions
SME too rigid in its distinctionsâIn order for its analogical mapings to work, SME assumes a rigid distinction between objects, attributes, and relations. But it is unclear whether humans make such a rigid distinction.âFFFACD
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Treatment of relations too rigid »
Treatment of relations too rigid
Treatment of relations too rigidâIn SME, relations are treated as n-place predicates that can only be mapped to other n-place predicates. But it is unlikely that human mind is so rigid in its treatment of relational mappings. âFFFACD
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Connectionist machines possess compositional semantics »
Connectionist machines possess compositional semantics
Connectionist machines possess compositional semanticsâThe claim that no connectionist model could have a compositional semantics is false, as connectionist implementations of classical machines do. Fodor and Pylyshyn havent fully grasped the difference between local and distributed representations.âFFFACD
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Implicit-structured representations causally effective »
Implicit-structured representations causally effective
Implicit-structured representations causally effectiveâTrained networks can transform distributed representations of passive sentences into active voice and vice versaâexhibiting systematicity and showing that the implicit structure of their representations can be causally effective in processing.âFFFACD
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Front-end Assumption is dubious »
Front-end Assumption is dubious
Front-end Assumption is dubiousâModels that use pre-configured representations and hand-tailored data assume that a separate front-end module could be built that would filter sensory data into the models representational form.âFFFACD
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