Tag: Game of Life

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post

Author
Robert Verrill, OP
Date
August 27, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Daniel Dennett, Game of Life}

Can a Game Prove That Computers Could Really Think?

_{Philosopher Daniel Dennett thinks so. Let's apply Occam's Razor and see} _{Robert Verrill, OP

August 27, 2018

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

While I agree with Dennett that Occam’s Razor shouldn’t be used overzealously, we shouldn’t be too reluctant to use it either. The reason why Dennett rejects Occam’s Razor in the Game of Life is that if he didn’t, then nothing in the Game of Life would be capable of possessing cognitive states. Read More ›