Author | Bringsjord, Selmer. author |
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Title | Superminds [electronic resource] : People Harness Hypercomputation, and More / by Selmer Bringsjord, Michael Zenzen |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2003 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0283-7 |
Descript | XXX, 339 p. online resource |
1 What is Supermentalism -- 1.1 Computationalism is Dead -- 1.2 Are We Serious -- 1.3 What is Dead? โ Propositional Answer -- 1.4 The Centrality and Logic of Personhood and Cognition in the Present Project -- 1.5 The Turing Test -- 1.6 Pictorial Overview of Supermentalism -- 1.7 Propositional Overview of Supermentalism -- 1.8 A Primer on Hypercomputation -- 1.9 An Alternative Characterization of Supermentalism -- 1.10 Classifying Supermachines/Superminds -- 1.11 Previewing Whatโs To Come -- 2 A Refutation of Penroseโs Gรถdelian Case -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Main Positions on AI -- 2.3 Why โWeakโ AI is Invulnerable -- 2.4 Background for Penroseโs New Gรถdelian Case -- 2.5 The Core Diagonal Argument -- 2.6 Formal Machinery -- 2.7 Formalizing Penroseโs Diagonal Argument -- 2.8 Penroseโs Dilemma: Either Way a Fallacy -- 2.9 Possible Replies -- 2.10 Given G, The Other Possibilities -- 2.11 Penroseโs Last Chance -- 2.12 Conclusion; The Future -- 2.13 Distilling Penroseโs Promising Intuitions -- 3 The Argument from Infinitary Reasoning -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Discarding Some Initial Objections -- 3.3 The Need for Open-Mindedness -- 3.4 Plan of the Chapter -- 3.5 Reasoning as Computation in First-Order Logic -- 3.6 Sharpening Infinitary Reasoning -- 3.7 The Argument from Infinitary Reasoning -- 3.8 Dialectic -- 3.9 Simonโs Dream and Mental Metalogic -- 3.10 Mental MetaLogic: A Glimpse -- 4 Supermentalism and the Fall of Churchโs Thesis -- 4.1 Background -- 4.2 Mendelsonโs Attack -- 4.3 Mendelsonโs Rebuttal -- 4.4 Attacking Churchโs Thesis -- 4.5 Objections -- 4.6 Our Arg3 in Context: Other Attacks on CT -- 5 The Zombie Attack on Computationalism -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Dennettโs Dilemma -- 5.3 Targeting Computationalism -- 5.4 Can Dennett Dodge His Dilemma -- 5.5 Two Final Moves -- 5.6 Conclusion -- 6 The Argument from Irreversibility -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Computational Conception of Mind -- 6.3 Rudiments of Reversibility -- 6.4 The Argument from Irreversibility -- 6.5 Dialectic -- 7 What are We? Whereโd We Come From -- 7.1 What, at Bottom, Are We -- 7.2 Perhaps Superminds are Simple Souls -- 7.3 Howโd We Get Here -- 7.4 Toward the Second Argument for Doubting that Evolution Produced Us -- 8 Supermentalism and the Practice of AI -- 8.1 Toward the Final Stage of the Project -- 8.2 The Eight-fold Prescription for the Practice of AI -- 8.3 P1: Building Consciously Harnessable Hypercomputers is Hard, but Push Ahead Anyway -- 8.4 P2: Focus on Building Artificial Animals (Zombanimals) -- 8.5 P3: Pursue What We have Dubbed โPsychometric AIโ -- 8.6 P4: Take Experimental Psychology of Reasoning Seriously -- 8.7 P5: Be Brutally Honest about the Limitations of Standard Schemes for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning -- 8.8 P6: Investigate Language Acquisition -- 8.9 P7: Pursue the Mathematical Modeling of Mentation, Independent of Even Future Implementation -- 8.10 P8: Put Connectionism in its Place