The Convergence Argument in Mind-Modelling: Scaling Up from Toyland to the Total Turing Test
The Convergence Argument in Mind-Modelling: Scaling Up from Toyland to the Total Turing Test
The Turing Test is just a methodological constraint forcing us to scale up to an organisms' full functional capacity. This is still just an epistemic matter, not an ontic one. Even a candidate in which we have successfully reverse-engineered all human capacities is not guaranteed to have a mind. The right level of convergence, however, is total robotic capacity; symbolic capacity alone (the standard Turing Test) is underdetermined, whereas full neurosimilitude is overdetermined.
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Harnad, Stevan
442ee520-71a1-4283-8e01-106693487d8b
1994
Harnad, Stevan
442ee520-71a1-4283-8e01-106693487d8b
Harnad, Stevan
(1994)
The Convergence Argument in Mind-Modelling: Scaling Up from Toyland to the Total Turing Test.
Cognoscenti: Bulletin of the Toronto Cognitive Science Society, 2, .
Abstract
The Turing Test is just a methodological constraint forcing us to scale up to an organisms' full functional capacity. This is still just an epistemic matter, not an ontic one. Even a candidate in which we have successfully reverse-engineered all human capacities is not guaranteed to have a mind. The right level of convergence, however, is total robotic capacity; symbolic capacity alone (the standard Turing Test) is underdetermined, whereas full neurosimilitude is overdetermined.
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Published date: 1994
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Reprinted in PSYCOLOQUY 11(078) 2000 ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/2000.volume.11/ psyc.00.11.078.ai-cognitive-science.18.harnad http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.078
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