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548Evolution: The Computer Systems Engineer Designing MindsAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 2 (2): 45-69. 2011.What we have learnt in the last six or seven decades about virtual machinery, as a result of a great deal of science and technology, enables us to offer Darwin a new defence against critics who argued that only physical form, not mental capabilities and consciousness could be products of evolution by natural selection. The defence compares the mental phenomena mentioned by Darwin’s opponents with contents of virtual machinery in computing systems. Objects, states, events, and processes in virtua…Read more
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23Interactions between philosophy and artificial intelligence: The role of intuition and non-logical reasoning in intelligenceArtificial Intelligence 2 (3-4): 209-225. 1971.
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19The Computer Revolution in Philosophy: Philosophy, Science and Models of MindBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 30 (3): 302-304. 1978.
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8Acquiring a Self-Model to Enable Autonomous Recovery from Faults and IntrusionsJournal of Intelligent Systems 12 (1): 1-40. 2002.
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30Komentarze do „Emulującego wywiadu… z Rickiem Grushem”Avant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 2 (2): 141-151. 2011.[Przekład] Author comments Rick Grush’s statements about emulation and embodied approach to representation. He proposes his modification of Grush’s definition of emulation, criticizing notion of “standing in for”. He defends of notion of representation. He claims that radical embodied theories are not applicable to all cognition.
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141This paper aims to replace deep sounding unanswerable, time-wasting pseudo- questions which are often posed in the context of attacking some version of the strong AI thesis, with deep, discovery-driving, real questions about the nature and content of internal states of intelligent agents of various kinds. In particular the question
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152Tarski, Frege and the Liar ParadoxPhilosophy 46 (176): 133-. 1971.A.1. Some philosophers, including Tarski and Russell, have concluded from a study of various versions of the Liar Paradox ‘that there must be a hierarchy of languages, and that the words “true” and “false”, as applied to statements in any given language, are themselves words belonging to a language of higher order’. In his famous essay on truth Tarski claimed that ‘colloquial’ language is inconsistent as a result of its property of ‘universality’: that is, whatever can be said at all can in prin…Read more
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11DPhil Thesis Knowing and UnderstandingDissertation, Oxford. 1962.The aim of the thesis is to show that there are some synthetic necessary truths, or that synthetic apriori knowledge is possible. This is really a pretext for an investigation into the general connection between meaning and truth, or between understanding and knowing, which, as pointed out in the preface, is really the first stage in a more general enquiry concerning meaning. (Not all kinds of meaning are concerned with truth.) After the preliminaries (chapter one), in which the problem is state…Read more
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393Most philosophers appear to have ignored the distinction between the broad concept of Virtual Machine Functionalism (VMF) described in Sloman&Chrisley (2003) and the better known version of functionalism referred to there as Atomic State Functionalism (ASF), which is often given as an explanation of what Functionalism is, e.g. in Block (1995). One of the main differences is that ASF encourages talk of supervenience of states and properties, whereas VMF requires supervenience of machines that are…Read more
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36What most people seem not to have noticed is that there's another kind of obesity, a sort of ' mental obesity' which may be causing as much harm to the nation's health -- its mental and intellectual health
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39This paper discusses some of the requirements for the control architecture of an intelligent human-like agent with multiple independent dynamically changing motives in a dynamically changing only partly predictable world. The architecture proposed includes a combination of reactive, deliberative and meta-management mechanisms along with one or more global ``alarm'' systems. The engineering design requirements are discussed in relation our evolutionary history, evidence of brain function and rece…Read more
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240The Computer Revolution in Philosophy: Philosophy, Science, and Models of MindHarvester Press. 1978.Extract from Hofstadter's revew in Bulletin of American Mathematical Society : http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1980-02-02/S0273-0979-1980-14752-7/S0273-0979-1980-14752-7.pdf "Aaron Sloman is a man who is convinced that most philosophers and many other students of mind are in dire need of being convinced that there has been a revolution in that field happening right under their noses, and that they had better quickly inform themselves. The revolution is called "Artificial Intelligence" (Al)-and …Read more
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35Some old problems going back to Immanuel Kant about the nature of mathematical knowledge can be addressed in a new way by asking what sorts of developmental changes in a human child make it possible for the child to become a mathematician
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107What sort of architecture is required for a human-like agent?In Ramakrishna K. Rao (ed.), Foundations of Rational Agency, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1996.This paper is about how to give human-like powers to complete agents. For this the most important design choice concerns the overall architecture. Questions regarding detailed mechanisms, forms of representations, inference capabilities, knowledge etc. are best addressed in the context of a global architecture in which different design decisions need to be linked. Such a design would assemble various kinds of functionality into a complete coherent working system, in which there are many concurre…Read more
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31This paper offers a short and biased overview of the history of discussion and controversy about the role of different forms of representation in intelligent agents. It repeats and extends some of the criticisms of the `logicist' approach to AI that I first made in 1971, while also defending logic for its power and generality. It identifies some common confusions regarding the role of visual or diagrammatic reasoning including confusions based on the fact that different forms of representation m…Read more
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71This paper, along with the following paper by John McCarthy, introduces some of the topics to be discussed at the IJCAI95 event `A philosophical encounter: An interactive presentation of some of the key philosophical problems in AI and AI problems in philosophy.' Philosophy needs AI in order to make progress with many difficult questions about the nature of mind, and AI needs philosophy in order to help clarify goals, methods, and concepts and to help with several specific technical problems. Wh…Read more
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41What kind of indirect process is visual perception?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (3): 401-404. 1980.
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45IV—Explaining Logical Necessity1Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 69 (1): 33-50. 1969.Aaron Sloman; IV—Explaining Logical Necessity1, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 69, Issue 1, 1 June 1969, Pages 33–50, https://doi.org/10.1093/a.
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95Architecture-based conceptions of mindIn Peter Gardenfors, Katarzyna Kijania-Placek & Jan Wolenski (eds.), In the Scope of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (Vol II), Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2002.
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82findings from affective neuroscience research. I shall focus mainly on, but in a manner which, I hope is.
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28How many separately evolved emotional beasties live within usIn Robert Trappl (ed.), Emotions in Humans and Artifacts, Bradford Book/mit Press. pp. 35--114. 2002.
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666This paper rehearses some relatively old arguments about how any coherent notion of free will is not only compatible with but depends on determinism. However the mind-brain identity theory is attacked on the grounds that what makes a physical event an intended action A is that the agent interprets the physical phenomena as doing A. The paper should have referred to the monograph Intention by Elizabeth Anscombe, which discusses in detail the fact that the same physical event can have multiple des…Read more
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127Phenomenal and access consciousness and the "hard" problem: A view from the designer stanceInternational Journal of Machine Consciousness 2 (1): 117-169. 2010.
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