Kevin B. Korb (1995) Persons and Things:
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Psycoloquy 6(15): Persons and Things:
PERSONS AND THINGS:
Book Review of Bringsjord on Robot-Consciousness
Kevin B. Korb
Dept. of Computer Science
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168
Australia
korb@cs.monash.edu.au
Abstract
Selmer Bringsjord's What Robots Can and Can't Be (1992,
1994) reviews many of the arguments and thought experiments current
in the foundational literature with the aim of refuting
functionalism and thereby the possibility of building persons out
of computers. Some of these arguments might work, but only if the
functionalism under assault is sufficiently distant from biological
functionalism.
Keywords
behaviorism, Chinese Room Argument, cognition,
consciousness, finite automata, free will, functionalism,
introspection, mind, story generation, Turing machines, Turing
Test.
References
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