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Lädt ... Can Animals and Machines Be Persons?: A Dialoguevon Justin Leiber
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This work is thought experiment. It was assigned reading many years ago for a Science Fiction course I took, but managed to only really skim through it at the time. I'm a terribly slow reader, and as an English Major, History Minor, my reading load was such that I often had to choose to skim works, or skip some readings altogether. (Some day, I'll actually sit and read Hamlet.) It's a very short work, written in the early-mid 1980's. It's a dialogue, a court proceeding where a UN group is trying to determine the fate of the continued existence of two entities. A computer system known as AL (Model Turing 346). Heh. Al Turing. Get it? Yeah, you probably got, but just in case you don't Alan Turing, and his thought experiments (and counter proofs, etc) are all brought up throughout the course of the dialogue. That really shouldn't be surprising when talking about "thinking machines." The famous "Turing Test" is used, as well as the "Chinese Box" and one I was somewhat less familiar with, the "Cast of Millions." Also discussed were Thomas Paine, Mary Shelley, and her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft. It presents some interesting arguments. Looking back on it, some thirty years later, you can see how the questions asked within, are ones that humanity has still not answered. Interesting from a science fictional point of view, in regards to what makes something a person. Though by design, no real conclusion is reached, and presumably, you are expected to go forth and make your own conclusions from the arguments presented. ( ) Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"This is a dialogue about the notion of a person, of an entity that thinks and feels and acts, that counts and is accountable. Equivalently, it's about the intentional idiom --the well-knit fabric of terms that we use to characterize persons. Human beings are usually persons (a brain-dead human might be considered a human but not a person). However, there may be persons, in various senses, that are not human beings. Much recent discussion has focused on hypothetical computer-robots and on actual nonhuman great apes. The discussion here is naturalistic, which is to say that count and accountability are, at least initially, presumed to be naturally well-knit with the possession of a cognitive and affective life." --Justin Leiber, from the Introduction Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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