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Human-like Computers
A Lesson in Absurdity
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2021
Summary
Some 50 years ago, the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum found that the idea that the socialization of a machine might in any way be comparable to the one of a human, is a sign of the madness of our time. Today, the idea is mostly not seen as a mad but rather as a quite plausible one, as are many other ideas about human-likeness of computers, like them having consciousness. At a closer look, however, the alleged human-likeness of computers is merely derived from weak analogies, like them having intelligence just because they can play chess (and nothing else). The book details the psychological and physiological preconditions for human mental functions to occur, ones that cannot possibly be fulfilled by computers. It puts the computers-as-humans issue into the broader philosophical frame of the scientistic view that man is basically a machine.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-3-7965-4525-2
ISBN-Online
978-3-7965-4526-9
Publisher
Schwabe, Basel / Berlin
Language
English
Pages
130
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Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 6
Preface No access Pages 7 - 8
Introduction No access Pages 9 - 12
Planetary movements – a theological perspective No access
The heritability of intelligence – a scientific zombie still going strong No access
Behaviorism – a mindless psychology No access
Psychosomatics – an etiology lost and regained No access
Mirror neurons – a debacle caused by hype No access
Localization of mental traits – phrenology’s long goodby No access
AI – a misnomer No access
Misleading use of analogies – raison d’être of the field No access
Predictions masquerading as facts No access
A ghost in everything No access
Human-like computers – a belief system No access Pages 35 - 36
The phenomenology of mental functions – a neglected issue in psychology No access Pages 37 - 42
The biological basis of mental functions No access Pages 43 - 52
Does “behave like” mean “be like”? No access Pages 53 - 54
The brain is not a computer No access Pages 55 - 64
The Turing Test – what can it tell us? No access Pages 65 - 70
Taking the brain for the human – a deprived view No access Pages 71 - 72
Memory No access
Perception No access
Motivation and emotion No access
Learning No access
Consciousness No access
Human-like computers – a scientistic delusion No access Pages 107 - 118
