24.119 Mind and Machines, Spring 2003
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24-119Spring-2003.zip
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Author(s)
Byrne, Alexander
Alternative Title
Mind and Machines
Date Issued
June 2003
Abstract
Examination of problems in the intersection of artificial intelligence, psychology, and philosophy. Issues discussed: whether people are Turing Machines, whether computers can be conscious, limitations on what computers can do, computation and neurophysiology, the Turing test, the analog/digital distinction, the Chinese Room argument, the causal efficacy of content, the inverted spectrum, mental representation, procedural semantics, connectionism, the relation between simulation and explanation, and whether some aspects of mentality are more resistant to programming than others.
Subjects
artificial intelligence
psychology
philosophy
turning machines
consciousness
computer limitations
computations
neurophysiology
Turing test
the analog/digital distinction
Chinese Room argument
causal efficacy of content
inverted spectrum
mental representation
procedural semantics
connectionism
Philosophy of mind
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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