Phil 1101 1st Edition Lecture 17Outline of Last Lecture I. Problems for PhysicalismII. Subjective vs. ObjectiveIII. Zombie ArgumentIV. Jackson’s Knowledge ArgumentOutline of Current Lecture I. Artificial IntelligenceII. Searle’s ArgumentIII. The Chinese RoomIV. ObjectionsCurrent LectureI. Artificial Intelligencea. Turing: a test for whether a computer could thinki. Idea: if a computer could consistently make humans believe it was thinking, it is thinkingb. Strong AI can mimic understandingi. An appropriately programmed computer could think and understand like a human beingc. Weak AI: researchi. Trying to get a computer to replicate certain brisk things a human can dod. Searle attacked that a computer could understandII. Searle’s Argumenta. Understanding language is an important part of human thinkingb. No computer could ever understand a languagec. So no computer will ever think like a human beingIII. The Chinese RoomThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.a. An argument by analogyb. Just as the man in the room seems to understand Chinese but doesn’t so a computer might seem to understand a language without really understandingc. A computer could implement a program that stimulates understanding a language without understanding that languageIV. Objectionsa. The Systems Replyi. Individual parts of the computer don’t understand, the whole system understand1. Searle Reply: s modified analogy still
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