The philosophy blog: Occasional philosophical thoughts on consciousness, science, technology, AI, ethics, and other related stuff.
Thoughts on John Searle’s Chinese Room Can a machine think? In his famous paper addressing this question, mathematician Alan Turing argued that if a machine could perform all the tasks that a human intellect could (and more), then why wouldn’t you consider this to be “thinking”? (Even if, he admitted, this might be to stretch …
Why You Are (Probably) Not Living in a Computer Simulation I recently watched Devs, a somewhat bleak but stylish, serious and well-researched TV drama written by Alex Garland, which explores a number of philosophical themes close to my heart. The following discussion of it contains some spoilers, so if you haven’t seen it yet (and …