Conversation outline: 00:00 The problem of mental representation 10:38 Can a computer think? Is the Turing Test satisfactory? 14:15 Can a robot think? 18:32 What is the Computational Theory of Mind? 20:20 The Language of Thought Hypothesis 26:33 Do neural networks implement our language of thought? 31:32 Can deep neural networks achieve a complexity which brings about awareness or AGI? 33:03 What is general intelligence? 34:29 Are there necessary conditions for intelligence? 38:00 What is the mechanical view of the human mind? 42:35 Consciousness 46:32 Can we have free will on the mechanical picture? 50:58 Can God account for the explanatory gap between science and consciousness? 54:40 Comments on aspects of religion
15:18 but remember that our artificial intelligence as it's practiced right now is not the theory of robotics 15:24 robotics is another thing artificial intelligence is trying to extract cognitive or pseudo-cognitive 15:31 processes and implement those processes in in computers17:28 in response to your question is yes of course we're much more complex 17:33 but no one really understands what that level of complexity is what how are we measuring the complexity 17:38 of a human being as opposed to a um a robot or a computer we already 17:46 know for example that you know computers are much much better than us at things that that i could never do you know like play
Tim Crane @ ~ 10:00 rejects the question, "How can an immaterial thing think?" on the grounds that "immaterial thing" has already been characterized in terms of thought. This is a mistake. Here is a replacement question: "How can there be a thing characterized by thought?" If he cannot answer that question - How can there be a thing characterized by thought? - then he doesn't have an answer at all.
