Tag: Essentialism

Humanoid robot in a call center with questions in the front of the monitor. 3d illustration.

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post

Author
Michael Egnor
Date
October 7, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Consciousness, Essentialism, Functionalism, Michael Graziano, Nominalism}

Can We Engineer Consciousness in a Robot?

_{One neuroscientist thinks we need only “simple guidelines.” His underlying assumptions are just wrong} _{Michael Egnor

October 7, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

Graziano's approach is not new. Ancient philosophers thought the mind was fire (not too long after the discovery of fire). Early modern philosophers thought the mind was a machine (just as the machine age got started). Now suddenly it's a computer…