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Apr 19, 2024
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PHIL 2621 - [Minds and Machines] (KCM-AS) Fall or spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2014-2015.
Staff.
Throughout history, metaphors drawn from technology of the time have been proposed to understand how the mind works. While Locke likened the newborn’s mind to a blank slate, Freud compared the mind to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. More recently, many have endorsed Turing’s proposal that the mind is a computer. Why is this idea attractive and what exactly is a computer? Is it at all plausible that the cells of your brain are computing? Could a computer ever really have a mind, beliefs, emotions and conscious experiences? What are these mysterious things anyway? Could a machine ever count as a person and make choices based on its own free will? Is it really so clear that we have this kind of free will?
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