Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Cognitive Neuroscience Links 05/26/2009

  • I think the Chinese Room is worth a second look not for the force of its argument but for what it reveals about contemporary ideas on what constitutes the essence of the human, especially intelligence, consciousness, and meaning. Excavating these and juxtaposing them with current controversies over the boundaries of the human will enable us to see what has changed, why it has changed, and what the change signifies in the decade and a half that has passed since Searle delivered the coup de grace that failed to deliver.

    tags: Searle, chinese-room, AI, 150, AZB, grue, cogsci


Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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