Robots, Zombies and Us
Understanding Consciousness
Could robots be genuinely intelligent? Could they be conscious? Could there be zombies? Prompted by these questions Robert Kirk introduces the main problems of consciousness and sets out a new approach to solving them. He starts by discussing behaviourism, Turing's test of intelligence and Searle's famous Chinese Room argument, and goes on to examine dualism - the idea that consciousness requires something beyond the physical - together with its opposite, physicalism. Probing the idea of zombies, he concludes they are logically impossible. Having presented the central problems, he sketches his solution: a version of functionalism, according t…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4742-8661-9
- EAN: 9781474286619
- Produktnummer: 21879195
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'533 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Robert Kirk is Emeritus Professor in the Philosophy Department at Nottingham University, UK.
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