PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Weak Ai, Mental Representation, Turing Test
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Representation: something that represents something (either itself or something else: goes proxy; stands for; symbolizes something, refers to something; is accurate/inaccurate; is true/false. Examples of representational kinds: pictorial representation, linguistic representation, mental representation. Crane argues that pictorial representation is not fundamental because. Crane argues that mental representation is fundamental in part because. It requires neither convention nor interpretation a. b. a. a. a. b. c. a. Is the mind to the brain like software is to hardware? a. Strong al: thinking is constituted by the manipulation of formal symbols, such as occurs in a computer program. Weak ai: thinking may be modeled by formal symbol systems, such as computer programs. 1. the linguistic behavior of a person and that of a machine. 2. machine, then there is no reason to think that there is any underlying difference in the causes of that behavior.
