Minds, machines and Searle
Author:
Stevan Harnad a
| Affiliation: | a Behavioral & Brain Sciences, Princeton, NJ, USA |
DOI:
10.1080/09528138908953691
Publication Frequency:
4 issues per year
Published in:
Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence,
Volume
1,
Issue
1
January
1989
, pages 5
- 25
Subjects:
Cognitive Artificial Intelligence.;
Cognitive Psychology;
Cognitive Science;
Evolutionary Computing;
Human Computer Intelligence;
Machine Learning - Design;
Neural Networks;
Robotics;
Systems & Controls;
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Abstract
Searle's celebrated Chinese Room Argument has shaken the foundations of Artificial Intelligence. Many refutations have been attempted, but none seem convincing. This paper is an attempt to sort out explicitly the assumptions and the logical, methodological and empirical points of disagreement. Searle is shown to have underestimated some features of computer modeling, but the heart of the issue turns out to be an empirical question about the scope and limits of the purely symbolic (computational) model of the mind. Nonsymbolic modeling turns out to be immune to the Chinese Room Argument. The issues discussed include the Total Turing Test, modularity, neural modeling, robotics, causality and the symbol-grounding problem.
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