He introduces and clarifies the basic concepts necessary for understanding these problems and discusses opposing views and possible solutions. Robinson describes the kinds of further research that seem likely to improve our understanding of the mechanisms of intelligence. This book is not a typical monograph on the latest developments in computer or robot technologies. Robinson uses the Turing test set-up and Serle's Chinese Room to introduce questions of current interest about artificial intelligence.
Imaginary robots help clarify relationships between different mental processes.
He examines an argument that some believe shows the impossibility of a robot that is a person's double, and he explains two major approaches that others think might someday make such a robot doppelg nger conceivable. Robinson has interesting things to say. C.U.N.Y. BACK TO TOP Contents Preface 1. A Complication 9.