A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...
Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational ...
A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.
Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which ...
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Philosopher: Nobody knows if AI could be conscious, and science can’t tell us
Is it unethical to create AI potentially capable of experiencing distress? In A Nutshell Cambridge philosopher argues current evidence cannot determine whether advanced AI would experience ...
Watching the usual gibbering about political theory slide past our screens is disspiriting because to live in a dying society is bad enough, but to live in one where everyone has gone insane and will ...
As far back as 1980, the American philosopher John Searle distinguished between strong and weak AI. Weak AIs are merely useful machines or programs that help us solve problems, whereas strong AIs ...
Abstract: Objective To explore the design ideas contained in humanistic functionalism, explore the new path of children's toy packaging design from the perspective of humanistic functionalism, and ...
Functionalism" is a complex and ambiguous notion. The author decided to explicate the differentiated content of the notion in the natural-scientific and ethnological fields. In general, functionalism ...
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