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Strong AI vs Gödel's Theorem?
If Gödel's Theorem is true, it means that for every formal system, there is a thesis that is true but can't be proven from the formal system. Every agent system which humans can build by modern ...
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What makes a computer artificially intelligent?
What features would make a computer be considered truly artificially intelligent? Better question yet, what would make a computer truly intelligent and conscious? (true artificial intelligence is an ...
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Is the Turing test a legitimate test to compare Robots to Human?
The Turing Test has been followed as a test that robots need to complete in order to be termed "Human-Like". But to what extent is this test justified? I mean, whatever the test maybe, the robot/ ...
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How should the creation of artificial life be approached? [closed]
It has been the said that artificial intelligence equal to that of a human being will be possible to program within the next few decades. If that is true, what are the philosophical ramifications of ...
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Is the android a kind of mankind?
In St.Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica, it said
But to know distinctly what is contained in the universal
whole is to know the less common, as to "animal" indistinctly is to know it as "animal"; ...
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Can artificially intelligent machines ever become sentient?
To those posting opinionated comments or answers (i.e. not factual research), please first describe your perspective of sentience and artificially intelligent machines - this is not the same as their ...
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Are the Sims self aware?
According to Professor Nick Bostrom of Oxford University:
...at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” ...
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Does Searle's Chinese Room model computers correctly?
Searle invented a thought experiment, the Chinese Room, which he proposes is an argument against Strong AI (that machines think) but not against Weak AI (that machines simulate thinking), he has a man ...
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Does Sartre's conception of consciousness imply the impossibility of a conscious computer?
Hubert Dreyfus among others have risen to prominence in philosophy of AI by emphasising (among other things) the directive primacy of unconscious or automatic, habit-driven processes. Dreyfus came to ...
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Does compatibilism imply that a chess program has free will?
I am puzzled by compatibilism and am trying to understand what it means using a test example. Given that a typical chess program generates several choices, evaluates them with a goal of winning and ...
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Which contemporary American researchers in the philosophy of AI might be considered most significant?
I'm about to start graduate studies with an AI philosopher, and I'm hoping he's considered a leading researcher. Apart from trying to gauge his reputation, I'm trying to become familiar with the ...
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Would a concious computer naturally hold a solopsistic philosophy? [closed]
We're biologically incapable of ignoring our senses. I want to clarify what I mean by this, because as posters have suggested we actually can do so, for example by blinding or gouging our eyes. I'm ...
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To be or not be—what would a conscious computer decide?
The Prometheus myth can be interpreted as consciousness being a burden. Camus used the myth of Sisyphus to debate the same issue. It is the theme of a famous speech from Hamlet. Heidegger talks of ...
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What would a “Turing test for reference” show?
What does Hilary Putnam mean by this?
Imagine a situation in which the problem is not to determine if the partner is really a person or a machine, but is rather to determine if the partner
uses ...
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If we assume The Turing Test to be the criterion for moral personhood, would simulated minds pose a problem for existing moral systems?
In an answer to this question I made the rather bold speculation that if the Turing Test is taken to be our defining criterion of a consciousness of human level, then all questions in the ethics of ...
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Can robots which passed the Turing test deny the orders given by human? [closed]
(Sorry if this question is off topic, but I concluded that philosophy is most suitable site to ask this question - I think this question is little off topic on theoretical CS SE site. I think that ...
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What are the minimum necessary and sufficient conditions for something to be considered sentient?
The answer to Could a sentient machine suffer? suggests that
The ability to suffer would not seem to be a necessary condition for sentience
This made me wonder what the minimum necessary and ...
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What other philosophy of mind books might be recommended if I like John Searle?
What other philosophy of mind books might be recommended if I like John Searle? I am an engineer who is interested in AI and the possibility of machines become able to think and the philosophy behind ...
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What are the retorts to Searle's Chinese Room?
Searle's Chinese Room basically argues that a program cannot make a computer 'intelligent'.
Searle summarises the argument as
Imagine a native English speaker who knows no Chinese locked in a ...
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How to recognize truth when you hear it? [closed]
Amateur here.
I always held that the only way to identify truth is by the scientific method. You test it. But, as I sit here smoking my pipe, I think there has got to be some method to deal with ...
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Why do Cohen and Levesque speak of overcommitment in this case?
I have to write a critic to this paper:
"Intention Is Choice with Commitment" by Philip R. Cohen and Hector J. Levesque
There is this one passage I definitively do not understand, right at the ...
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Could a sentient machine suffer?
I was considering this closed question very intently, and I found that I'm not at all fluent in the idea of modern slavery. Many philosophers have spoken on slavery. On this forum, someone has already ...
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Would it be ethical to own a sentient machine? [closed]
Some futurologists predict that we may have human-level artificial intelligences within the next few decades. What might be the most significant philosophical consequences of such a development, and ...
