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Strategii de circumscriere a biologismului în filosofia inteligenţei artificiale
Strategies of Outlining Biologism in the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

Author(s): Ioan-Claudiu Farcaş
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Editura U. T. Press
Keywords: biologism; biological naturalism; supervenience; artificial intelligence; mind; Background

Summary/Abstract: In the philosophy of mind, biologism is the perspective by which the brain, as a whole, as a biological structure and according to its functions, is, actually, the mind. Through the biological naturalism proposed by Searle, the brain is nothing if not a „biological machine”. Starting from this idea, the road towards imagining, in the same parameters, an artificial intelligent system and, furthermore, an artificial mind, is not that long. In the philosophy of artificial intelligence, biologism and its implications bring an important contribution and are instrumental to extending the sphere of research.

  • Issue Year: XXII/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 309-314
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian