PHILOS 1 Lecture 9: Philos 1 - L9
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If a machine passes the turing test, it is said to have intelligence. Computers can be thought of as a turing machine. Strong ai: a computer that runs the right program is intelligent/conscious and has a mind similar to the mind that we have. Embodied cognition: a mind of consciousness can only be created by interacting with an actual environment. Could there be a world of experience for a machine? (qualitative experiences) Jesse j. prinz (2003) we must be mysterians the problem isn"t that it would be impossible to create a conscious computer. The problem is that we cannot know whether it is possible. John searle (1997) the brain is a machine. The brain is a biological machine just as much as the heart and liver. So of course some machines can think and be conscious. The implications regarding building conscious machines are significant. Argument from biology: only humans can have consciousness.
