Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Machines and Animals
- Philosophers
- Ned Block
- absenence of qualia
- against the possibility of either
Strong or Weak AI
- Turing
- If a computer could convincingly
imitate a person to another
person it must be considered a
person
- Searle
- absence of intentionality -
against Strong AI
- Colby
- Dennet
- PARRY test is restricted
ethically, as psychologists
could not put pressure on the
computer they thought was
paranoid, if they had it would
have been exposed
- PARRY test
- Philosophers
- Singer
- Speciesism
- the ability to feel pain puts them
on the same moral plane as us,
and we should give them certain
rights accordingly
- Gaita
- ability to adapt to
situations tactically,
the parrot
- Hume
- The experiences of animals form the
'foundation of their judgement.'
- they feel similar emotions to us, 'the
howling and lamentatIons of a dog
produce a sensible concern in his fellows'
- Wittgenstein
- 'if a lion could speak we
could not understand
him'
- Gallup
- Self awareness
- mirror spot test -
worked on chimps but
not on monkeys
- Chomsky
- because of animals' lack of
language it is incapable of
complex reasoning
- Davidson
- lack of language - incapable of
having beliefs or desires
- Descartes
- animal lack a 'rational soul'
- however they can be trained to control
certain passions as humans can