A thought occured to me: people who are offended by the idea that a mere machine can think simply might not be imagining the right machine. They imagine maybe a hundred neurons, each extending 10-15 synapses to the others. And then they can’t make head or tail of even that, because it’s already too big. Scope insensitivity, in other words.
A thought occured to me: people who are offended by the idea that a mere machine can think simply might not be imagining the right machine. They imagine maybe a hundred neurons, each extending 10-15 synapses to the others. And then they can’t make head or tail of even that, because it’s already too big. Scope insensitivity, in other words.