Consciousness
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon have been created out of the interplay of memes exploiting and redirecting the machinery Mother Nature ...
by all our interlinked computers and servers that are constantly copying, vary- ing, and selecting vast amounts of digital infor ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon Hofstadter, D. R. (2007). A fleeting encounter with zombies and dualism [excerpt]. In D. R. Hofstadter ...
CHAPTER The evolution of machines t WeLVe MINDS AND MACHINES Is there something special about human beings that enables us to th ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon thought – for that, res cogitans or thinking-stuff was needed (Chapter 1). Among those who rejected his ...
Chapter Twelve The evolution of machines said and read and did, or would they just be acting as if they understood? We arrive at ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon at the time, yet it has taken its place in history as the first general-purpose, pro- grammable calcula ...
chips, or be made of brain cells, beer cans, water pipes, or anything else at all, as long as it carries out the same operations ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon From this emerged the ‘computational theory of mind’. As Searle later put it: Many people still think ...
Chapter Twelve The evolution of machines now imagine the effects of lots of other synapses on the same cell but at slightly diff ...
Computable v. non-computable. A computable procedure is one that can be described explicitly, and any such procedure can be carr ...
EMBODIED COGNITION The machines described so far are all disembodied, con- fined inside boxes and interacting with the world onl ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon can assess the current situation and take evasive action. This approach is sometimes called situ- ated ...
otherwise sit still; the second let him wander around without crashing into things; and the third made him explore by looking fo ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon representations, what could it be doing? This is a challenge for embodied cogni- tion, and for enactive ...
Chapter Twelve The evolution of machines What, then, is a good test of what a machine can do? Among all the possible tests one c ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon learn from human players a function that allows it to capture some ‘intuitive’ sense of good board posi ...
could play the game satisfactorily, we need not be troubled by this objection. He gives sample ques- tions and answers, and inte ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon for the real world’ (1998b, p. 29). In 1995, these restrictions were lifted and the rules gradually cha ...
machine. This question is much more difficult than the already difficult question posed by Turing. When he asked ‘Can a machine ...
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