Maurizio Tirassa (1994) Is Consciousness Necessary to High-level Control Systems?
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Psycoloquy 5(82): Is Consciousness Necessary to High-level Control Systems?
IS CONSCIOUSNESS NECESSARY TO HIGH-LEVEL CONTROL SYSTEMS?
Book Review of Bringsjord on Robot-Consciousness
Maurizio Tirassa
Universita' di Milano
Ist. Psicologia Fac. Medicina
via Francesco Sforza, 23
20122 Milano (Italy)
Universita' di Torino
Centro di Scienza Cognitiva
via G.L. Lagrange, 3
10123 Torino (Italy)
tirassa@imiucca.csi.unimi.it
tirassa@psych.unito.it
Abstract
Building on Bringsjord's (1992, 1994) and Searle's (1992)
work, I take it for granted that computational systems cannot be
conscious. In order to discuss the possibility that they might be
able to pass refined versions of the Turing Test, I consider three
possible relationships between consciousness and control systems in
human-level adaptive agents.
Keywords
behaviorism, Chinese Room Argument, cognition,
consciousness, finite automata, free will, functionalism,
introspection, mind, story generation, Turing machines, Turing
Test.
References
- Bringsjord, S. (1992) What Robots Can and Can't Be. Boston: Kluwer Academic.
- Bringsjord, S. (1994) Precis of: What Robots Can and Can't Be. PSYCOLOQUY 5(59) robot-consciousness.1.bringsjord.
- Harnad, S. (1991) Other bodies, other minds: A machine incarnation of an old philosophical problem. Minds and Machines 1:43-54.
- Newell, A. (1990) Unified theories of cognition. Boston: Harvard University Press.
- Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1984) Computation and cognition. Boston: MIT Press.
- Searle, J.R. (1992) The rediscovery of the mind. Boston: MIT Press.
- Turing, A.M. (1950) Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind 59:433- 460.