Ariella V. Popple (1996) The Existence-in-principle of the Rosetta Stone:
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Psycoloquy 7(37): The Existence-in-principle of the Rosetta Stone:
THE EXISTENCE-IN-PRINCIPLE OF THE ROSETTA STONE:
IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSCIOUSNESS
Commentary on Bringsjord on Turing-Test
Ariella V. Popple
Department of Psychology
University of Durham
Science Laboratories
Durham DH1 3LE
United Kingdom
A.V.Popple@dur.ac.uk
Abstract
Bringsjord (1996) suggests that naive psychology will
vanish when we become unsure whether our netscape correspondents
are human or just a bag of tricks. This pessimism, which stems from
his assertion that humans are not automata, may necessitate
allowing humans to contravene the laws of physics. Recent
developments associating thermodynamics with information theory
anticipate that contemporary quandaries about mind and brain may one
day become as incomprehensible as the idea that Egyptologists once
argued about the existence-in-principle of the Rosetta stone.
Keywords
False belief tests, folk psychology, naive psychology,
the "other minds" problem, theory of mind, the Turing test.
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