PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Turing Lecture, Thinking Machines Corporation, Organizations Of The Dune Universe

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

Document Summary

Review #5: descartes on mind and body. Something that is extended (thus arbitrarily divisible), not a thinking thing. Something that is a thinking thing, not divisible, thus not extended. One argument in meditation two, one in med 6 for why mind is thinking and indivisible. The whole of corporeal nature is the subject of mathematics - anything extended: according to descartes, could you construct a mathematical model of the mind, no - you could only construct mathematical models of extended things. Turing wants to take this possibility seriously. Constructing the mind with mathematical models is exactly what people are doing today. Taking descartes" vision for mathematically modelling science - including temperature, climate, meteorology - and pushing it further than he ever thought possible. What is ai: artificial - this word can mean different things, bowl of fake fruit example - only one very superficial similarity to real fruit; it looks like it, but it is not in any other fashion.