PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Roger Wolcott Sperry, Emergentism, John Searle

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The mind exists (as property of some physical stuff) But its not what we think it is . The mind is just a set of functions in the brain, a computational algorithm or computer program. Our subjective experience is just a program running the brain. Views the mind as the software operating in the hardware of the brain. Accepts the computational metaphor for the mind. Property dualism but substance monism (program: computer as mind: brain) The mental is simply those functions of the coordinated brain systems. Multi-realizeability: the mind cannot be simply identified with brain states because the mind is multi-realizable . That is the same mental state can be realized in different brains as the same program can run on different computers. Explaining consciousness functionally: the touring test (1950) alan turing. John searle & the chinese room thought experiment. First, distinguish strong artificial intelligences (ai"s-those that really think) from.

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