I saw another article on Gödel’s incompleteness theorems linked from Reddit today. It’s a topic I’ve wanted to write about for some time. Although many articles do a decent job in giving an idea of what the big deal is (and this one is pretty good), they can sometimes give a misleading impression of what the theorems actually imply. I’m by no means an expert, but hopefully these notes are useful.
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Re-evaluating Searle’s arguments against machine consciousness
Like many students of artificial intelligence, I have long viewed John Searle’s Chinese Room argument with slight annoyance. It seems so obviously wrong headed and yet it persists. So I was pleasantly surprised to find myself re-evaluating my interpretation of the argument after watching some old videos of Searle. This is not to say that I suddenly believe it is a good argument, but I now think I understand a little better why Searle makes it.
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Neil Madden 