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Dancing with Pixies: Strong Artificial Intelligence and Panpsychism
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Book Section
Authors/contributors
- Bishop, Mark (Author)
- Preston, John (Editor)
- Bishop, Mark (Editor)
Title
Dancing with Pixies: Strong Artificial Intelligence and Panpsychism
Abstract
In 1994 John Searle stated (Searle 1994: 11-12) that the Chinese Room Argument (CRA) is an attempt to prove the truth of the premise: led him to the conclusion that ‘programs are not minds’ and hence that computationalism, the idea that the essence of thinking lies in computational processes and that such processes thereby underlie and explain conscious thinking, is false. The argument presented in this chapter is not a direct attack or defence of the CRA, but relates to the premise at its heart, that syntax is not sufficient for semantics, via the closely associated propositions that semantics is not intrinsic to syntax and that syntax is not intrinsic to physics.1 However, in contrast to the CRA’s critique of the link between syntax and semantics, this chapter will explore the associated link between syntax and physics.
Book Title
Views into the Chinese Room: New Essays on Searle and Artificial Intelligence
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Date
2002-08-22
Pages
0
ISBN
978-0-19-825057-9
Short Title
Dancing with Pixies
Accessed
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Library Catalog
Silverchair
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Citation
Bishop, M. (2002). Dancing with Pixies: Strong Artificial Intelligence and Panpsychism. In J. Preston & M. Bishop (Eds.), Views into the Chinese Room: New Essays on Searle and Artificial Intelligence (p. 0). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198250579.003.0019
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