- Paperback - Number of Pages: 224 pages
- Dimensions: 150.4 x 228.6 x 14.7mm - 381.02g
- Publication date: 01 Mar 1993
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint: BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS
- Publication City/Country: Oxford, United Kingdom
Recent rapid advances in high-speed computer technology have provided a new reality, an perhaps urgency, to the arguments concerning some of the most basic and long-standing of philosophical issues. If computers can, before too long, achieve a genuine artificial intelligence, then may they not also have artificial minds? In this series of lectures, a distinguished group of international contributors from a variety of disciplines debate the current position. Donald Broadbent's introduction describes the parallels in human and machine behaviour, asserting the value of a scientific approach. Roger Penrose goes on to set the scene by evaluating current claims and issues, supporting a sceptical view. Contributions from Allen Newell, Dana Ballard and Mike Brady present some recent achievements of engineering and computer science, showing just how far machines have come. In his chapter Edmund Rolls offers a perspective from neuroscience and examines how certain cognitive processes (such as memory) can be understood in ter...
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