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Ep. 22 - Descartes vs. Hobbes

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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The Importance of Weak AI

weak AI is the project of just making machines that can do things for us that typically intelligent animals or human beings could do. Strong AI is to make a computer that not does just some intelligent things, but is actually an instance of mind. To succeed in Hobbes's project requires you do the following: If I'm actually making a material mind, how do I know I've really succeeded? If when I make this, I can give an explanation of how Descartes is wrong. And if I can answer all of Descartes' objections in an explanatory fashion. Not just yelling at him, Descartes, Silly,. Silly, Silly, silly! But I

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