For your next paper you should deeply
logically analyze this topic as described in the
following prompt, and, when you have done that, only then
write up a proper (minumum three page) Thesis Paper fully
describing, clarifying, supporting, and defending what
you presently think is the most logically supportable
conclusion we can come to about this topic.(Three pages,
double spaced, odf, .doc. .docx, .pdf, submit through
Turnitin.com.)
A Thesis
Paper starts with a statement of your thesis (or
"unthesis") as its very first sentence.
A Thesis Paper
does not have an introduction.
A Thesis Paper
does not have a conclusion.
If you would like more general guidance on how to write
a next stage thesis paper, see the follow-up rules. |
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Consider An Objection To Computer Consciousness
You have written a paper that at least sort-of supported the
idea of computer consciousness or computer minds. Now I
would like you to consider
some arguments against
the idea that computers could someday have minds
You could do Jaki which
requires you to analyze and evaluate a (weak) argument against
computer consciousness.
Or Azarian which requires
you to analyze and evaluate a different (weak) argument against
computer consciousness.
Or Searle, which requires
figuring out whether an author really understand what a
brain-emulating computer would be doing.
Or you could follow one or more of the links below, and find at
least one argument against
computer minds. (Let me know about any broken links.)
If you follow one of the below links your chosen argument (or
arguments), do all of the following.
- Take the time to get this argument completely clear in your
own mind.
- Identify the factual claims upon which this argument is based
- Try to understand the abstract logic that is supposed to make
the argument work.
- Figure out whether or not all the factual claims upon which
this argument is based are provably
true.
- Figure out whether or not all the abstract logic upon
which this argument is based is actually good logic.
- If the factual claims are provably
true, and the logic really is
good logic, write a paper according to Plan B below.
- If the factual claims are not
provably true, or the logic really is not good logic, write a paper according
to Plan A below.
Plan A
(You didn't change your
mind based on your understanding of your chosen opposing argument)
- Clearly and completely explain your chosen opposing argument.
- If it failed factually, clearly and completely explain how it
failed factually.
- If it failed logically, clearly and completely explain what's
wrong with the abstract logic upon which this argument
is based.
- Make any other comments that seem relevant to the overall
logic of this argument.
Plan B
(You did change your mind
based on your understanding of your chosen opposing argument)
- Clearly and completely explain your chosen opposing argument.
- Clearly and completely explain the abstract logical
primciple upon which this argument is based.
- Explain what you thought about while analyzing this argument.
- Make any other comments that seem relevant to the overall
logic of this argument.
- THEN clearly and
completely explain what was wrong with YOUR original
argument.
- If your original argument
failed factually, clearly and completely explain how it failed
factually.
- If your original
argument failed logically, clearly and completely
explain what was wrong with the abstract logic upon
which it was based.
- Make any other comments that seem relevant to the overall
logic of your original argument.
Links to pages with arguments against computer consciousness
Three
Arguments Against Computers Being Conscious
Why
Minds Are Not Like Computers
Conscious
computers are a delusion
The Lucas-Penrose
Argument about Gödel's Theorem
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Other (possibly broken) links that may or may not be helpful.
Here's
Why Robots Will Never Achieve Consciousness
A
neuroscientist explains why artificially intelligent robots will
never have consciousness like humans
The Problem of Animal Consciousness
6-05
Computers can never have a conscious experience or Extended
Article
Are
Computer Games Really Conscious? | Hare Krishna Community
fu_computerjaki.htm
ot_chineseroom.htm
As a hint, you might think about what your challenger is also
unable to describe.
Link Junkyard
Here's
Why
Robots Will Never Achieve Consciousness
A
neuroscientist explains why artificially intelligent robots will
never have consciousness like humans
The Problem of Animal Consciousness
6-05
Computers can never have a conscious experience.
Are
Computer Games Really Conscious? | Hare Krishna Community
Here are some more arguments for
computer consciousness. (At least, I think these pages
have such arguments.)
Scott
H
Young » Consciousness Explained
Consciousness
Is Finite (But I Don't Mind)
The
Cambridge
handbook of consciousness - Google Books
More on animal consciousness or http://members.multimania.nl/dierbewust/culture.html
An interesting essay that might be taken either way:
The Creation of
I's—Consciousness, Identity, Subjectivity, Solipsism, Brain
https://www.businessinsider.com/penrose-says-your-brain-isnt-a-computer-2016-6
If you're interested in Roger Penrose's argument against computer
consciousness, see computerpenrose.htm
Finally, here's a very, very technical (and occasionally silly)
overview of the whole issue In
Defence
of Strong AI: Semantics from Syntax
And remember, if you ignore the argument
for computer consciousness, you will get zero for the assignment.
Here's two possible followups:
Computers and Consciousness -
this is the basic question.
Computers and Quantum Consciousness
- this deals with Roger Penrose's objection to computer
consciousness.
Scientific
American: What is Consciousness?
Additional Links
(Added 10/12/20) Be careful how you
read these articles. None of them should be taken as
authoritative. Any of them could be wrong. Some
of them are nonsense.
If
A Program Can't Understand Truth - Ethics Of Artificial
Intelligence Babies
The Lucas-Penrose
Argument about Gödel's Theorem
Why is
the Lucas-Penrose Argument Invalid?
Three
Arguments Against Computers Being Conscious
Minds, Machines, and
Mathematics, David J. Chalmers
Can
a robot be conscious?
What
do artificial intelligence researchers think of Roger Penrose's
argument that machines cannot have consciousness?
https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2009/01/13/consciousness-explained/
https://futurism.com/new-find-may-explain-how-the-brain-creates-consciousness/
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/computers-designed-to-mimic-human-brains-may-achieve-truly-intelligent-ai/
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/computer-chip-mimics-human-brain-light-beams-neurons
https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/01/ibm-is-teaching-ai-to-behave-more-like-the-human-brain/
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/163051-simulating-1-second-of-human-brain-activity-takes-82944-processors
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/531146/what-it-will-take-for-computers-to-be-conscious/
https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/imaging/can-machines-be-conscious
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/heres-why-robots-will-never-achieve-consciousness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=43&v=j_OPQgPIdKg
https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Searle#ref296703
https://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/a-neuroscientist-explains-why-artificially-intelligent-robots-will-never-have-consciousness-like-humans/
https://krishna.org/are-computer-games-really-conscious/
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