[ExI] Searle and AI

[Stathis Papaioannou]

2009/12/28 Gordon Swobe <gts_2000 at yahoo.com>:
> Damien,
>
>> [Searle] is arguing that current computational designs lack some
>> critical feature of evolved intentional systems.
>
> It's not so much about any mysterious "critical features" in nature or evolution so much as it is about the formality of programs running on top of hardware.
>
> Even if Zeus handed us a concrete example of an artificially constructed machine with strong AI, we could not abstract from careful study of that machine a formal program to run on a software/hardware system that would enable that s/h system to also have strong AI. We would need instead to recreate that machine.

What if in recreating the machine we made some changes which have no
obvious effect on function, such as replacing copper wiring with
silver, or replacing BJTs with the equivalent MOSFET circuit?


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Stathis Papaioannou