PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sentience, Machine Ethics, Ada Lovelace

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1100
• Professor: guarini

Document Summary

Provide hume"s argument for why there"s no justification for cause and effect reasoning; future resembling the past. Nothing; cause and effect are about matters of fact not a priori, only relations of ideas are a priori. Turing want to replace the question can machines think? with another question. Example: the imitation game/the turing test; trying to guess who is male and who is female behind a door, can ask questions, the contestants can lie. If i can"t guess which is human and which is computer, then for all practical purposes the computer thinks. He wants to be precise about the kind of machine he"s talking about. He doesn"t want to have to worry about defining what thinking and rationality is; he wants to answer the question without getting bogged down by those kinds of issues. Evaluating turing"s test is not the same as evaluating the claim machines can think.