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Turing Test
‘Passing a Turing test is neither necessary nor sufficient for the attribution of mentality.’ Discuss. In his 1950’s paper, ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’, Professor Allan Turing (of Bletchley… more →
Ross Barham
Revisiting The Chinese Room
wrote 1 week ago: I’d like to thank Alec Deason again for lifting some of my confusion about his story, “T … more →
Dissecting the Chinese Room
wrote 1 week ago: Before we get into this I’m going to quote Searle himself from the MIT Encyclopedia of Cogniti … more →
Wedding: Emily & Ryan
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Emily and Ryan’s wedding day started out at the Alexis Hotel downtown… …and they w … more →
Human Kinds--Ray Kurzweil and Uploading: Just Say "No"--Parts 2 and 3
wrote 4 months ago: Here Nick moves on to uploading proper, starting with ideas about cochlear implants and the incremen … more →
REVIEW - Genesis (2006) by Bernard Beckett
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wrote 6 months ago: Strange Horizons have my review of Bernard Beckett’s Genesis. Originally published in 2006, t … more →
An essay in Nature about free will
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wrote 7 months ago: May 14, 2009. There’s an essay in Nature by Martin Heisenberg about free will entitled “ … more →
What's Inside John Searle's Chinese Room?
wrote 7 months ago: DN Claim: “I believe the person I refer to as “Debbie” (artificial intelligence) also spoke to … more →
Philosophy Word of the Day – Chinese Room
wrote 8 months ago: Image via Wikipedia This is the definition in a nutshell: The Chinese Room argument comprises a thou … more →
Rambling like a mad man on mescaline. Maybe living in a Chinese room.
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wrote 9 months ago: I’m not feeling very anything right now. It’s like maybe I’m a character in a comi … more →
Cotard
wrote 9 months ago: One Night Stanzas is going to feature one of my poems. I’m working on a new project. It involv … more →
Mystic Pizza
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wrote 9 months ago: Norm Nason and Paul Almond, over at Machines Like Us, have managed to pull quite a coup and conduct … more →
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Blue
wrote 1 year ago: A computer simulation of the upper layer of a rat brain neocortical column OK, so perhaps this shoul … more →
Chinese Room and the Cogito
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wrote 1 year ago: The Chinese Room Cogito ergo sum is perhaps the most abused three-word phrase in our contemporary in … more →
Thought Experiments - Famous experiments in Philosophy
wrote 1 year ago: There are lots of famous thought experiments in Philosophy. Here are some of my favourites: Big Boo … more →
Chinese Room 2.0: The Monkey-Logic Room
wrote 1 year ago: Searle’s Chinese Room argument demonstrates that a Strong-AI machine would lack the proper skills ne … more →
Philosophy and semantics
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wrote 1 year ago: So my philosophy 102A class “Reality and Metaphysics” has so far been pretty lackluster, … more →
Eliza, the Simulated Rogerian Psychotherapist.
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wrote 1 year ago: Click here to talk to Eliza “Eliza” is a very simple computer program that watches the i … more →
Turing Test
wrote 1 year ago: ‘Passing a Turing test is neither necessary nor sufficient for the attribution of mentality.’ Discus … more →
The Philosophical Significance of Mike
wrote 1 year ago: The following essay was written as an imaginative, albeit philosophical, response to the science-fic … more →
