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Intentionality and computationalism: minds, machines, Searle and Harnad 

Author: Michael G. Dyer a
Affiliation:   a Computer Science Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
DOI: 10.1080/09528139008953728
Publication Frequency: 4 issues per year
Published in: journal Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Volume 2, Issue 4 October 1990 , pages 303 - 319
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Abstract

Searle (1980, 1989) has produced a number of arguments purporting to show that computer programs, no matter how intelligently they may act, lack ' intentionality' Recently, Harnad (1989) has accepted Searle' s arguments as having ' shaken the foundations of Artificial Intelligence' (p. 5). To deal with Searle' s arguments, Harnad has introduced the need for ' noncomputational devices' (e.g. transducers) to realize ' symbol grounding' This paper critically examines both Searle' s and Hamad' s arguments and concludes that the foundations of AT remain unchanged by these arguments, that the Turing Test remains adequate as a test of intentionality, and that the philosophical position of computationalism remains perfectly reasonable as a working hypothesis for the task of describing and embodying intentionality in brains and machines.
Keywords: intentionality; computationalism; turing test; Chinese room; symbol grounding
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