The mechanics of other minds | Philip Ball
Philosophy For Our Times
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What Is a Mind?
There's a perception that getting anything like artificial will require close consideration of how machine minds actually function. I guess i need to start by asking that difficult question, what is a mind? Ander we have to admit, there is no scientific definition that's going to help us here. Most people are probably ready to accept that, say, anarangitan has a mind. You might consider there's something it is like be a mouse, perhaps even a fly, maybe a fungus. It makes sense to speak then, not in terms of things that absolutely do or don't have a mind, but of mindedness too. And one of the benefit of thinking about those matters of degree in
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