Minds, Brains and Turing
Minds, Brains and Turing
Turing set the agenda for (what would eventually be called) the cognitive sciences. He said, essentially, that cognition is as cognition does (or, more accurately, as cognition is capable of doing): Explain the causal basis of cognitive capacity and you’ve explained cognition. Test your explanation by designing a machine that can do everything a normal human cognizer can do – and do it so veridically that human cognizers cannot tell its performance apart from a real human cognizer’s – and you really cannot ask for anything more. Or can you? Neither Turing modelling nor any other kind of computational r dynamical modelling will explain how or why cognizers feel.
consciousness, cognition, feeling, Turing Test, computation, Searle
Harnad, Stevan
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March 2011
Harnad, Stevan
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Harnad, Stevan
(2011)
Minds, Brains and Turing.
In Third Annual Online Consciousness Conference.
vol. 3,
Consciousness Online..
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Turing set the agenda for (what would eventually be called) the cognitive sciences. He said, essentially, that cognition is as cognition does (or, more accurately, as cognition is capable of doing): Explain the causal basis of cognitive capacity and you’ve explained cognition. Test your explanation by designing a machine that can do everything a normal human cognizer can do – and do it so veridically that human cognizers cannot tell its performance apart from a real human cognizer’s – and you really cannot ask for anything more. Or can you? Neither Turing modelling nor any other kind of computational r dynamical modelling will explain how or why cognizers feel.
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Published date: March 2011
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consciousness, cognition, feeling, Turing Test, computation, Searle
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