PSYC 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Blaise Pascal, Simple Machine
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Problematic: whats unique to humans, a simple machine can do (religion) Increasing ability to perform math calculations according to prescribed + systematic rules. The recognition that since the principles of calculation were perfectly regular + precisely specifiable, they could potentially be performed by machines. The observation that these systematic calculational processes resembled the essence of human rational thought. Idea of programming, could not make it into machine. Saw that people relied on tables for accounting, wanted to mechanize this. (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t (cid:271)uild what he wa(cid:374)ted, too (cid:373)u(cid:272)h (cid:373)o(cid:374)ey, (cid:862)differe(cid:374)(cid:272)e e(cid:374)gi(cid:374)e(cid:863) Still a machine that could only do 1 thing, made something that could do more than one at a time with programmed instructions. Lovelace objection: computers can only do what they are programmed to do, they are not capable of real creativity. Logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity. Weak ai: computer processes are useful models for human thought processes but are not equivalent to them.
