InquiryOctober 17, 2026Anton Alexandrov, Sebastian Sunday Grève
This paper argues that the concept of human mindedness may be employed as a Carnapian explicatum that enables progress to be made in the debate about strong AI, that is, the thesis that ‘the appropriately programmed computer really is a mind’. It is shown that a holistic notion of human mindedness – conceived as all of what may typically occur in the mental life of a human being – yields...
The logical problem of artificial intelligence—the question of whether the notion sometimes referred to as ‘strong’ AI is self-contradictory—is, essentially, the question of whether an artificial form of life is possible. This question has an immediately paradoxical character, which can be made explicit if we recast it (in terms that would ordinarily seem to be implied by it) as the question of...