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Artificial Intelligence Strong Ai
1,667 wordsThe aim of this study is to show that John Searles premises from which he derived his Chinese Room argument are false, therefore, his claim that strong artificial intelligence is not possible is invalid. Partisans of strong AI claim that in a question and answer sequence, not only is a machine simulating a human ability but also: a. ) The machine can literally be said to understand the story and provide answers to questions b. ) What the machine and its program do is explain the human ability to...
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Body And Soul Internal And External
2,952 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites It is impossible to rigorously prove or substantiate the existence of a Soul, a psyche. Numerous explanations have been hitherto offered: That what we, humans, call a soul is the way that we experience the workings of our brain (introspection experienced). This often leads to infinite regressions. That the soul is an epiphenomenon, the software result of a hardware complexity (much the...
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Electrical Impulses Mental Phenomena
663 wordsHuman beings have a conception of at least two different kinds of things that exist in the world, mental and physical. Any of us could generate a long list of obvious physical things and clear cases of psychological things. And we assume that both of these types of things, mental phenomena and physical phenomena, are part of our world. But in order to get a more unified, overall picture of the world, we need to consider what the connection is between these two categories. How are the mental and ...
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Identity Theory Vice Versa
852 wordsThe identity theory, also known as reductive materialism, is one of the views Churchland uses to describe mind-brain correlation. Churchland believes that the mental states of the body are one and in the same (double aspects) with brain states. They are the same because the biochemical actions produced in brain states (release of serotonin and acetylcholine) have direct interaction with the mental states (mood disorders such as depression). With the help of psychological and physiological eviden...
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Obsessive Compulsive Freud
5,825 wordsSam Vaknins Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites It is impossible to rigorously prove or substantiate the existence of a Soul, a psyche. Numerous explanations have been hitherto offered: That what we, humans, call a soul is the way that we experience the workings of our brain (introspection experienced). This often leads to infinite regressions. That the soul is an epiphenomenon, the software result of a hardware complexity (much the same way as temperature, volume and...
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