Selmer Bringsjord (1996) Artificial Intelligence and the Cyberiad Test
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Psycoloquy 7(30): Artificial Intelligence and the Cyberiad Test
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE CYBERIAD TEST
Reply to Barresi on Robot-Consciousness
Selmer Bringsjord
Dept. of Philosophy, Psychology & Cognitive Science
Department of Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy NY 12180 (USA)
selmer@rpi.edu
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http://www.rpi.edu/~brings
Abstract
Barresi (1995) accurately distills the overall position
on the mind defended in (Brigsjord, 1992), but his objection to
this defense is based upon a non sequitur. Moreover, his proposed
replacement for the Turing Test by the "Cyberiad Test," certainly
intriguing, suffers from the same fatal flaw infecting Turing's
original test: viz., it is entirely possible (maybe even probable)
that the Cyberiad Test should be passed with flying colors by mere
zombies.
Keywords
behaviorism, Chinese Room Argument, cognition,
consciousness, finite automata, free will, functionalism,
introspection, mind, story generation, Turing machines, Turing
Test.
References
- Barresi, J. (1995) Building Persons: Some Rules For The Game. PSYCOLOQUY 6(12) robot-consciousness.7.barresi.
- Bringsjord, S. & Zenzen, M. (forthcoming) In Defense of Uncomputable Cognition. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer.
- Bringsjord, S. (1995a) Could, How Could We Tell If, and Why Should-Androids Have Inner Lives, in Android Epistemology, Ken Ford, Clark Glymour & Pat Hayes, editors, MIT Press, 1995, pp. 93-122.
- Bringsjord, S. (1995b) In Defense of Impenetrable Zombies, Journal of Consciousness Studies 2.4: 348-351.
- 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.
- Harnad, S. (1991) Other Bodies, Other Minds: A Machine Incarnation of an Old Philosophical Problem, Minds and Machines 1.1: 43-55.
- Lem, S. (1976) The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age, trans. M. Kandel. New York, NY: Avon Books.
- Watt, S. (1996) Naive Psychology and the Inverted Turing Test PSYCOLOQUY 7(14) turing-test.1.watt.