John Searle and the Threat of Artificial Intelligence

Posted on October 22, 2014 in Infernal Machine
It is at the point of this speculative possibility that Searle’s argument becomes both more interesting and more problematic, for it probes—somewhat indirectly, but powerfully nonetheless—the significance of the “artificial,” a category under which we can put both “art,” “artifice,” and certainly “technology.”
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