1.
What is the
difference between Strong and Weak AI? How does he define each of them? To
which is Searle objecting?
2.
Whose work does
Searle consider in this article? What other programs does he mention?
3.
What is Searle’s
example to describe these works of AI? What are the claims partisans of strong
AI make about these examples?
4.
What is the
Chinese Room thought experiment? Describe it in details! What is it designed to
show?
5. How is the Chinese Room thought
experiment is related to the Turing Test and particularly to the
consciousness objection to the Turing Test?
6.
What is the Systems Reply, and how does Searle respond to it? Is
his reply convincing?
7.
What is the Robot Reply? What deficiency of computers does the Robot
Reply aim to solve? How does Searle answer this objection?
8.
What is the Brain
Simulator Reply? How does Searle reply?
9.
What is Searle’s
reaction to the Other Minds Reply? How does it connect to Turing’s argument?
10. Searle claims that the reason we should attribute
intentionality to animals, and not to robots that exhibit the same kind of
behavior, is that "we can see that the beasts are made of stuff similar to
our own". Why should this matter? Searle says:
"perhaps, for example, Martians also have intentionality, but their brains
are made of different stuff. That is an empirical question, rather like
the question whether photosynthesis can be done by something with a chemistry different from that of chlorophyll."
Is he right that this would be a straightforward empirical question?
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