Machines and Thought
The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume 1
1st Edition
Published on 28. November 1996
309 pages
978-0-19-100196-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in the theory of artificial intelligence and computer science continues to be widely discussed today. A group of prominent academics from a wide range of disciplines focus on three questions famously raised by Turing: What, if any, are the limits on machine `thinking'? Could a machine be genuinely intelligent? Might we ourselves be biological machines, whose thought consists essentially in nothing more than the interaction of neurons according to strictly determined rules? The discussion of these fascinating issues is accessible to non-specialists and stimulating for all readers.
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Persons
Peter Millican is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Computer Studies at the University of Leeds.
Andy Clark is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology program at Washington State University, St Louis, Missouri. He is the author of Microcognition (MIT Press 1989) and Associative Engines (MIT Press 1993).
Content
- 1: Robert M. French: Subcognition and the Limits of the Turing Test
- 2: Donald Michie: Turing's Test and Conscious Thought
- 3: Blay Whitby: The Turing Test: AI's Biggest Blind Alley?
- 4: Ajit Narayanan: The Intentional Stance and the Imitation Game
- 5: Herbert Simon: Machine as Mind
- 6: J. R. Lucas: Minds, Machines, and Gödel: A Retrospect
- 7: Robin Gandy: Human versus Mechanical Intelligence
- 8: Antony Galton: The Church-Turing Thesis: Its Nature and Status
- 9: Chris Fields: Measurement and Computational Description
- 10: Aaron Sloman: Beyond Turing Equivalence
- 11: Iain A. Stewart: The Demise of the Turing Machine in Complexity Theory
- 12: Peter Mott: A Grammar-Based Approach to Common-Sense Reasoning
- 13: Joseph Ford: Chaos: Its Past, its Present, but Mostly its Future
- 14: Clark Glymour: The Hierarchies of Knowledge and the Mathematics of Discovery
