PP111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Turing Machine, Qualia, Physicalism
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Has physicalism won: most folks are physicalists, a few are reductivists/ eliminativists. Qualia and consciousness: some philosophers of mind are committed to the existence of peculiar objects called quail. Nagel"s bats: navigate by echo-location, we know a lot about bats but we still won"t know what its like to be a bat, some things can only be known from the subjective perspective . So can machines think: really, the question is ill-formed, since we don"t really know yet what we mean by. Machine or think : if we set the bar too high maybe human persons don"t think, if we set it too low calculators can think. Alan turing: british mathematician, logician, philosopher and computer scientist. #1: a computer is a practical realization of a turing machine , a machine that can compute and we can thank turing for giving us a de nition of. Turing machine: it can compute anything computable.
