From: Paul Cockshott (wpc@DCS.GLA.AC.UK)
Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 06:02:25 EDT
Ian Wright wrote: A very strong argument can be made that the philosophical problem > of understanding the relationship between subject and object has > been solved in principle and is being solved in practice in the > field of Artificial Intelligence, a field almost entirely devoted > to understanding the relationship between kinds of representations > and kinds of things, and embodying that understanding into systems > that act autonomously in the world. I am sure that this won't > convince you iota, perhaps because it is only vulgar technology, > and therefore couldn't possibly contribute to metaphysical > debates about the nature of mind and consciousness. The joke is > true nevertheless. Things have really moved on since Heidegger. > Due to the division of intellectual labour there are always lags, as > you say, but in this instance the engineers, being much closer to > the problem, have stolen a march on the philosophers. Dennett says just this in conciousness explained - citing Chomsky the radio engineer as an example. -- Paul Cockshott Dept Computing Science University of Glasgow 0141 330 3125
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