Marina Brown and Joseph O'Rourke (1995) Agnosticism Revisited
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Psycoloquy 6(21): Agnosticism Revisited
AGNOSTICISM REVISITED
Reply to Bringsjord on Robot-Consciousness
Marina Brown and Joseph O'Rourke
Dept. of Computer Science
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
orourke@cs.smith.edu
Abstract
Bringsjord (1995) formalizes our argument (Brown &
O'Rourke 1994) inaccurately and then shows that his formalized
version is fallacious. We offer a succinct restatement of our
argument to clarify its logical structure.
Keywords
behaviorism, Chinese Room Argument, cognition,
consciousness, finite automata, free will, functionalism,
introspection, mind, story generation, Turing machines, Turing
Test.
References
- Bringsjord, S. (1994) Precis of: What Robots Can and Can't Be. PSYCOLOQUY 5(59) robot-consciousness.1.bringsjord.
- Bringsjord, S. (1992) What Robots Can and Can't Be. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- Bringsjord, S. (1995) Agnosticism About Neuron-Level Functionalism. PSYCOLOQUY 6(20) robot-consciousness.13.bringsjord
- Brown, M. & O'Rourke, J. (1994) Agosticism About the Arbitrary Realization Argument. PSYCOLOQUY 5(83) robot-consciousness.3.brown