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First, Scale Up to the Robotic Turing Test, Then Worry About Feeling

Harnad, S. and Scherzer, P. (2007) First, Scale Up to the Robotic Turing Test, Then Worry About Feeling. In: Proceedings of AAAI 2007 Fall Symposium on AI and Consciousness, November 8–11, 2007, Washington DC. (In Press)

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Abstract

Consciousness is feeling, and the problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining how and why some of the functions underlying some of our performance capacities are felt rather than just “functed.” But unless we are prepared to assign to feeling a telekinetic power (which all evidence contradicts), feeling cannot be assigned any causal power at all. We cannot explain how or why we feel. Hence the empirical target of cognitive science can only be to scale up to the robotic Turing Test, which is to explain all of our performance capacity, but without explaining consciousness or incorporating it in any way in our functional explanation.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item
Creator/Authors:
Stevan Harnad
Peter Scherzer
Keywords:consciousness, cognition, artificial intelligence, causation, explanation, feeling, mind/matter problem, other minds problem
Research Group:Current ECS Groups > Web and Internet Science
Old ECS Groups > Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia
Date:2007
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Citations:ISI: 2, Google Scholar: 26
Downloads (2010):132
ID Code:14430
Last Modified:23 Sep 2011 10:35
Deposited On:26 Aug 2007 by Harnad, Stevan

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