Philosophy of Science Thread
Wittgenstein Thread
AI and robots
#474 Re: Rorty (Saicho) Rorty states that the
three most important philosophers of this century are Wittgenstein, Heidegger
and Dewey.
#475 Rorty, Wittgenstein, Dennett (Schmidt)
Rorty as a materialist and an eliminativist with respect to mental states
#486 Re: Rorty (Saicho) I respectfully suggest
that Rorty be read directly
#490 Substantial Rorty (JMC) a quote from
PHILOSOPHY AND THE MIRROR OF NATURE
#492 opinion of an opinion (Schmidt) what
Rorty wrote and in what context
#494 Re: opinion of an opinion (Saicho) in
the process of reading Philodophy and the Mirror of Nature
#495 Re: opinion of an opinion of an opinion
(Saicho) by trusting the "reviewer" one often gets a very skewed opinion
that might serve to immediately put one against some thinker
#514 opinion of an opinion of an opinion (Schmidt)
If I hear something that is of interest to me then I can go and try to
puzzle out the original work.
#498 Re: Rorty (Saicho) what do you mean by
"civil rights" and by "an intelligent robot"?
#501 rights for robots (Schmidt) definitions
of "intelligence" and "rights" that will apply to both humans and robots
#504 Re: rights for robots (Saicho) why is
it even important to create an "artificial being" which will demand its
"rights."
#506 do a better job (Schmidt) I'm a technophile
because I like options.
#507 Re: do a better job (Saicho) if there
comes a time when (a la Turing) the distinction between a robot and a human
is impossible to make then what will have changed?
#509 Re: rights for robots (JMC) I take it
that Popper did make sense to you.
#510 Re: rights for robots (Saicho) It is
natural for humans to be intelligent and creative and to build
things.
#512 robot jobs (Schmidt) What will be changed?
[see #507] We (or our children) are going to find out.
#518 Re: robot jobs (Saicho) With your intelligent
robot have you gotten closer to ìhigher knowledge?î
#519 Re: rights for robots (JMC) what Popper
says in "Natural Selection and Its Scientific Status."
#524 Re: rights for robots (Saicho) The question
at hand is one of non-human evolution versus human directed
evolution.
#525 Re: rights for robots (Luke Pellen) why
create an "artificial being"?? Knowledge.
#529 Re: rights for robots (Saicho) I can
understand one trying to create AI as a means for understanding the human
mind, but I don't believe serious cognitive scientists do this.
#531 Slaves to Evolution (JMC) Do we want
robots to be more than slaves?
#533 better living through transhumanism (Schmidt)
prospects for superhuman artificial intelligence
#535 Transhumanism or Megalomania? (JMC) Solving
information overload with a robot is like a rock star countering the effects
of cocaine with speed.
#536 Re: rights for robots (Robert Parr) six
essentials of "natural" evolution
#538 Re: Slaves to Evolution (Saicho) I imagine
that robot "evolution" would be a combination of Darwinian natural selection
and Lamarkian inherited characteristics
#539 Re: Transhumanism or Megalomania? (Schmidt)
intelligent robots might function as a tool that humans could use to find
meaning in our mountains of information
#540 oi, robot! (Luke Pellen) The goal of "human
intelligence" is a painful legacy of "strong" AI, and it seems rather silly
to me.
#541 Re: oi, robot! (Schmidt) This is where
functionalism resides.
#543 Re: oi, robot! (Bill Doxey) Are we now
the hoi robotoi?
#573 Re: oi, robot! (Luke Pellen) Functionalism
works fine as a general approach, but it has its limitations.
Follow a branch of this thread dealing with
science, philosophy, and meaning in the Philosophy
of Science Thread
#554 information and meaning (Schmidt) Many
branches of science start with a phase during which there is much confusion
(little understanding) and there is an emphasis on collecting many tiny
nuggets of information.
continues with #556-#567
#561 Re: Slaves to Evolution (Robert Parr) Isn't
Social Darwinism just a rationalization for unfettered greed and selfishness?
#562 Re: rights for robots (Robert Parr) Darwinism
speeded up
#564 Re: JMC, Saicho, Schmidt, charliehobbs
(Robert Parr) I'm over here on the North Rim [see
#433] listening in.
#565 Re: Slaves to Evolution (Saicho) yes,
Social Darwinism is rationalization for unfettered greed and selfishness
#571 Re: Slaves to Evolution (JMC) Social Darwinism
became indistinct from racism
#583 Re: Slaves to Evolution (Robert Parr)
Social Evolutionism: a critical history by Stephen K Sanderson