PHIL 346 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Logical Form

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Philosophy Main
• Course: PHIL 346
• Professor: All

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Response: one day we could potentially construct something for computers to think for themselves. 7. argument from continuity in the nervous system one cannot expect to be able to mimic the behavior of the nervous system with a discrete-state machine. Response: it is true that a discrete-state machine must be different from a continuous machine. But if we adhere to the conditions of the imitation game, the interrogator will not be able to take any advantage of this difference. 8. the argument form informality of behavior it is not possible to produce a set of rules purporting to describe what a man should do in every conceivable set of circumstances. Response: agreed, but there is a difference between rules of conduct and rules of behavior. 9. the argument from extrasensory perception our bodies movie simply according to known laws of physics together with some others not yet discovered but similar.