PHIL 346 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Turing Machine, Behaviorism, Natural Selection

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

Document Summary

There is an obvious connection between this process and evolution, by the identifications: 1. Structure of the child machine = hereditary material 2. Changes of the child machine = mutation 3. Learning process analogous to the programming of the computer. If the earning process was successful a child program could follow that of a human child. The mind as software of the brain pt. Defining the mental in terms of the behavioral. Turing tried to put forth a behaviorist definition on intelligence with the turing machine which contains the essence of a digital computer. His version of behaviorism formulates the issue of whether machines could think or be intelligent in terms of whether they could pass this test. The computer is deemed intelligent if the judge cannot tell the difference between the computer and the man. Anything is intelligent if, and only if. it can pass the turing test.