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Robots, Zombies and Us - Understanding Consciousness (Hardcover)
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Robots, Zombies and Us - Understanding Consciousness (Hardcover)
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Could robots be genuinely intelligent? Could they be conscious?
Could there be zombies? Prompted by these questions Robert Kirk
introduces the main problems of consciousness and sets out a new
approach to solving them. He starts by discussing behaviourism,
Turing's test of intelligence and Searle's famous Chinese Room
argument, and goes on to examine dualism - the idea that
consciousness requires something beyond the physical - together
with its opposite, physicalism. Probing the idea of zombies, he
concludes they are logically impossible. Having presented the
central problems, he sketches his solution: a version of
functionalism, according to which consciousness consists in the
performance of functions. While there is wide agreement among
philosophers about what the main problems of consciousness are,
there is little agreement on how to go about solving them. With
this powerful case for his version of functionalism, Kirk offers an
engaging introduction to both the problems and a possible solution.
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