[ExI] Searle and AI

[Stathis Papaioannou]

2009/12/29 Gordon Swobe <gts_2000 at yahoo.com>:
> --- On Sun, 12/27/09, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The argument due to David Chalmers that I have been putting to Gordon
>> (http://consc.net/papers/qualia.html) shows that this position is
>> absurd. IF the brain is computable THEN so is consciousness
>
> I think you misunderstand "computable consciousness" but we'll discuss this in the other thread.
>
> I read Chalmer's "hard problem" book a few years ago, by the way (don't recall the exact title offhand). In fact I discussed it with others here. Chalmer's critics have it right; Chalmer leaves us with more questions than we had to start with!

But that specific paper purporting to prove that computers can be
conscious is one of the most significant in philosophy of mind in
recent years.


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Stathis Papaioannou