Kevin B. Korb (1995) Persons and Things: . Psycoloquy: 6(15) Robot Consciousness (10)
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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.

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