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Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence | John Searle | Talks at Google
John Searle's Talk at Google on consciousness and artificial intelligence, hosted by Google's Singularity Network. He presents his philosophy of mind and Chinese room argument that computation is syntactic and cannot capture semantics.
Why HN readers recommended it
Used as a source for Searle's own argument in Chinese room discussions, though some find nothing new in it.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Talks at Google
- Topic
- philosophy of mind
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2017
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From the original HN conversations
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I was not trying to connect rule 110 to Searle's argument per se, but rather to the critique of Searle's argument. Namely, that criticisms of the lookup table are not criticisms of Searle's argument or the point he makes. a C++ program, brainf k, a …
makebelieve on Hacker News · 2016-01
In Ask HN: Opinion about Searle's Chinese Room?Philosophy is not some sort of church where everyone praise some emotionally agreed upon idea... You seems to be turning this into some sort of us vs. them game based on your faulty projections, so I hope to stop here. (Btw, If you are getting …
3498rtigcufk on Hacker News · 2017-03
In Has philosophy ever clarified mathematics?
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