PSYO 3280 Lecture Notes - Telling Stories, Chinese Room, Ontogeny
4 Dec 2012
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Paper is his criteria of what constitutes a person. Computers/robots might be functionally equivalent, but lack consciousness ( zombies ) Describes kasparov"s take on playing deep blue, the chess playing computer. Said it was hard for him to play a computer that was like playing against another person due to its vast library of moves and ability to. Although the computer did play in an unhuman manner because he had to defeat the computer by playing chess moves that do not necessarily make sense. Barresi states the computer lacks awareness of the other person, and it is behaving like a zombie acting like a human but lacks consciousness . Turing test: behavioural equivalence person (cf. Famous test that allan turing developed for a machine being given intelligence and behaving like a person. Would get someone to ask, blindly, questions to a computer and a person, and would determine based on the responses which is actually a person.
