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To pass this test, the computer being tested would have to be able to do everything that a normal human being does, including walking, riding a bicycle, swimming, dancing, playing a musical instrument, and so on. Only a computer with a robot body could do that. Is passing the Total Turing Test either necessary or sufficient for being intelligent and thus having a mind? Why or why not?
2. It is possible to make a fully functional computer out of sticks, stones, and toilet paper. If such a computer ran your program, would it be you? Why or why not? 2.4
- 1. What does Searle’s thought experiment about Chevrolet station wagons show?
- 2. What is the point of Jackson’s thought experiment about the color-challenged scientist?
- 3. Is it possible to provide a complete account of the world in purely physical terms? Why or why not?
- 4. Is folk psychology an inadequate psychological theory? Why or why not?
3. Can we eliminate all references to mental states from a scientific account of the world? Why or why not? 2.5
- 1. Is property dualism a more adequate theory of the mind than eliminative materialism or the reductive theories? Why or why not?
- 2. Could a being with no conscious experience—a zombie—do everything that we can do?
- 3. Could the Milky Way galaxy be the brain of an intelligent creature? Is the claim that it is the brain of an intelligent creature a plausible one? Why or why not?
4. Do placebos or nocebos provide a good reason for believing in downward causation? Can the evidence be explained without postulating downward causation? If so, how?
- 1. What does Searle’s Chinese room thought experiment show?
- 2. Is being in a certain functional state a necessary or sufficient condition for being in a certain mental state? Why or why not?
- 3. Suppose that a robot was created whose behavior was indistinguishable from that of a normal human being. Should such a robot be given the same rights as a human being? Why or why not?
- 4. Suppose that an autopsy was performed on an alien found in a crashed flying saucer, and suppose that none of its internal organs resembled a brain. Would that show that it isn’t intelligent? Why or why not?
5. What is Lewis’s pained madman thought experiment? What is it meant to show?
6. Consider the various replies to Searle’s Chinese room thought experiment. Which do you think is the most plausible? Why?
7. Psychologist Stevan Harnad has proposed the Total Turing Test for artificial intelligence.
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