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Selmer Bringsjord
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Artificial Intelligence☜A collaboratively editable version of Robert Horns brilliant and pioneering debate map Can Computers Think?—exploring 50 years of philosophical argument about the possibility of computer thought.☜F1CEB7
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Adding causal inputs doesn't create consciousness »
Adding causal inputs doesn't create consciousness
Adding causal inputs doesn't create consciousness☜Imagine that the input to Maudlins water computer machine comes from the external world by way of a Norwegian with a watering hose. It seems unlikely that the Norwegians input could make the otherwise unconscious machine conscious. ☜FFFACD
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Drugged Gigantor-building Norwegians in Texas »
Drugged Gigantor-building Norwegians in Texas
Drugged Gigantor-building Norwegians in Texas☜Bringsjord outlines a thought experiment (see detailed text) intended to illustrate that Pollocks requirement that the information be guided by natural laws isnt sufficient for the creation of mental states.☜FFFACD
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Cherries on the keyboard »
Cherries on the keyboard
Cherries on the keyboard☜Bringsjords argues (see detailed text) that cherries failling—under natural law—onto a computer keyboard shouldnt make a difference between an entity having / not having mental states, as functionalists must claim. Hence, functionalism is false.☜FFFACD
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Intelligent behavior not sufficient »
Intelligent behavior not sufficient
Intelligent behavior not sufficient☜AI will build robots that can behave intelligently, but will never make robots that are actually persons. Persons are genuine things (not logical constructions) that bear psychological properties that can bring about states of affairs in the world.☜FFFACD
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Free will has infititude beyond deterministic limits »
Free will has infititude beyond deterministic limits
Free will has infititude beyond deterministic limits☜Free will yields an infinitude that finite machines cant reproduce. Humans can be in an infinite number of states in a finite period, unlike deterministic machines. This infinite capacity allows humans to make decisions machines could never make.☜FFFACD
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Cole confuses persons with personalities »
Cole confuses persons with personalities
Cole confuses persons with personalities☜Multiple virtual personalities may exist in one brain but multiple persons may not. A psychiatric patient with multiple personality disorder isnt possessed by a variety of virtual persons, but rather by a psyche fractured into a variety of persona.☜FFFACD
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