Skip to content

Spontaneous Generations A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science

ISSN 1913-0465

1 paper in the library · publishing 2010

Papers

Sort Most recent Most cited

Otto in the Chinese Room

Spontaneous Generations A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science August 30, 2010 Philip Murray McCullough

The purpose of this paper is to explore a possible resolution to one of the main objections to machine thought as propounded by Alan Turing in the imitation game that bears his name. That machines will, at some point, be able to think is the central idea of this text, a claim supported by a schema posited by Andy Clark and David Chalmers in their paper, “The Extended Mind” (1998). Their notion...