Robots of Minds - William Lycan by Endre Wagner on Prezi.
In the following essay the functions of robots, the various types of robots and the advantages and disadvantages of using robots will be discussed. The reasons for using robots are almost endless for example; robots are ideal for jobs that require repetitive, precise movements. Human workers get bored doing the same thing over and over, which can lead to fatigue, RSI ( Repetitive Strain.
The purpose of the following essay is to inspire people to think about the interesting possibilities for the future of robots and humans. The arguments presented here are informal, and the topics are ambitious and controversial: reality, the mind, consciousness, and humanity. Philosophy students may find the reasoning exceedingly naive, and maybe a little arrogant, but even if this work does.
Robots and Minds, William Lycan Some have held that in fact substantive and formal justice tend to go together and therefore that at least grossly unjust institutions are never, or at any rate rarely, impartially and consistently administered.
JOHN R. SEARLE'S CHINESE ROOM. A case study in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science John R. Searle launched a remarkable discussion about the foundations of artificial intelligence and cognitive science in his well-known Chinese room argument in 1980 (Searle 1980). It is chosen as an example and introduction to the philosophy of mind. No background knowledge is needed to read this.
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Lycan, William G. (ed) Mind And Cognition: A Reader Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Magee, Bryan, Popper Fontana Modern Masters Series. (A very good short introduction to Karl Popper's views of knowledge and science.) Mitchell, David, An introduction to logic Hutchinson, 1962.
William Bechtel and Robert McCauley (1999) develop a version of “heuristic” mind-brain identity theory (HIT) and defend it explicitly against multiple realizability. HIT insists that identity claims in science typically are hypotheses adopted in the course of empirical investigations, which serve to guide subsequent research. They are not conclusions reached after empirical research has.