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Machines and thought

edited by P.J.R. Millican and A. Clark

(Mind Association occasional series, . The legacy of Alan Turing ; v. 1)

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1996

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This is the first of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in the theory of artificial intelligence and computer science continues to be widely discussed today. A group of prominent academics from a wide range of disciplines focus on three questions famously raised by Turing: What, if any, are the limits on machine `thinking'? Could a machine be genuinely intelligent? Might we ourselves be biological machines, whose thought consists essentially in nothing more than the interaction of neurons according to strictly determined rules? The discussion of these fascinating issues is accessible to non-specialists and stimulating for all readers.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Subcognition and the Limits of the Turing Test
  • 2. Turing's Test and Conscious Thought
  • 3. The Turing Test: AI's Biggest Blind Alley?
  • 4. The Intentional Stance and the Imitation Game
  • 5. Machine as Mind
  • 6. Minds, Machines, and Godel: A Retrospect
  • 7. Human versus Mechanical Intelligence
  • 8. The Church-Turing Thesis: Its Nature and Status
  • 9. Measurement and Computational Description
  • 10. Beyond Turing Equivalence
  • 11. The Demise of the Turing Machine in Complexity Theory
  • 12. A Grammar-Based Approach to Common-Sense Reasoning
  • 13. Chaos: Its Past, its Present, but Mostly its Future
  • 14. The Hierarchies of Knowledge and the Mathematics of Discovery

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  • NCID
    BA29505487
  • ISBN
    • 0198235933
  • LCCN
    96025418
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Oxford,New York ; Tokyo
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 297 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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