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Hamlet On The Holodeck
The invention of eliza
In 1966, Joseph Weizenbaum, a professor of computer science at MIT, create, as an experiment in natural language processing, a computer program called ELIZA that carried on a conversation by replying to typed-in statements with printed words. [...] The resulting persona, Eliza…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
From materialism to the computational theory of mind
In the next few pages I am going to sketch briefly the history of materialism in the twentieth century, up to the point where it finally reached its most sophisticated formulation in the computational theory of the mind, the theory that the brain is a computer and the mind is a…
Mind is to brain as program is to hardware
The idea was based on a convergence of work in philosophy, cognitive psychology, linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence. It seemed that we knew the answer to the question that faced us: the way the system works is that the brain is a digital computer and…
The computational theory of mind
The collection of ideas that I have just explained contains the tools necessary to articulate the single most influential and powerful theory of the mind in the last decades of the twentieth century. The brain is a digital computer, in all probability a Universal Turing…
The Chinese room
An argument explicitly directed against Strong AI was put forth by the present author.5 The strategy of the argument is to appeal to one’s first person experiences in testing any theory of the mind. If Strong AI were true, then anybody should be able to acquire any cognitive…
Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective
Code is not necessarily an artifact
In the light of these observations, a code is not necessarily an artifact. If we acci- dentally delete a line of code, the result might still be a computer code. It will not, however, be “intentionally made to serve a given purpose”. Moreover, we can clearly conceive the…