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Philosophy As Engineering, Lynn Stein

Lynn Andrea Stein

Ours is a field in crisis. Artificial Intelligence cannot make up its collective mind whether it is a discipline of Science or of Engineering. It is unclear from our literature and from our research whether our goals are to explain intelligence or to create it. A researcher who hypothesizes about the structure of intelligent behavior is accused of constructing theories without hope of instantiation; one who creates a seemingly intelligent artifact often sees it derided as "mere hackery." The theorists among us confer in an ever more arcane language, grasping for the idealized agents and environments for which our formal …

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Letter To The Editor: Adderall Abuse Sets Add Patients Back, Andrew Blitman

Andrew Blitman

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Love, Sex Shouldn't Be Free, Andrew Blitman

Andrew Blitman

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Computationalism And The Problem Of Other Minds, Stuart Glennan

Stuart Glennan

In this paper I discuss Searle's claim that the computational properties of a system could never cause a system to be conscious. In the first section of the paper I argue that Searle is correct that, even if a system both behaves in a way that is characteristic of conscious agents (like ourselves) and has a computational structure similar to those agents , one cannot be certain that that system is conscious. On the other hand, I suggest that Searle's intuition that it is "empirically absurd" that such a system could be conscious is unfounded. In the second section I …

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Philosophy As Engineering, Lynn Stein

Lynn Andrea Stein

Letter To The Editor: Adderall Abuse Sets Add Patients Back, Andrew Blitman

Andrew Blitman

Love, Sex Shouldn't Be Free, Andrew Blitman

Andrew Blitman

Computationalism And The Problem Of Other Minds, Stuart Glennan

Stuart Glennan