PHIL 1611 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Thought Experiment, Chlorophyll, Operationalization
9 Mar 2016
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Instructor: tony kostroman: the target: strong ai. An appropriately programmed computer with the right program successfully imitating our actions and responses really is a mind - it can understand and have other mental states. The example: schank"s work though the same argument can be extended to ai in general. Schank: to program a computer to fill in the gaps" as we do in listening to stories. This would be impressive - like understanding a joke, a whole lot of background is implied and utilized. Strong ai thus claims: machines can understand and this explains the human ability: the argument: searle and the chinese room. Therefore: programs by themselves are not constitutive of nor sufficient for minds. Searle concedes - this example doesn"t rise to the level of proof that symbol manipulation is not. 1 what is involved in our understanding, it does make that hypothesis extremely implausible.
