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Re:Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress by thanatropism on Monday November 05, 2018 @04:37AM (#18381018)
Hubert Dreyfus claimed that AI was a test of the Cartesian theory of mind.

Dreyfus was also pretty much right about everything AI related from the 1960s on. It will take nothing short of a true self-driving car to refute something he said.

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Re:Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress by gepi79 on Monday November 05, 2018 @04:46AM (#18381049)
Sorry, I have not spent time with the philosophy of other people. Could you explain what you mean, especially with regard to my previous comment ?

This is my opinion:

https://machineperson.org/ai.html

https://machineperson.org/existence.html

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Re:Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress by thanatropism on Monday November 05, 2018 @09:30AM (#18382515)
I can't.

The essential blocks of Dreyfus are in Martin Heidegger (which I also haven't studied in depth). Helping you obtain a partially understood, utilitarian version of my partially understood, utilitarian version of Dreyfus's partially understood, utilitarian version of Heidegger would be... enabling.

You really need to "spend time with the philosophy of other people" if you want to move ahead with the notions explored in those two links.

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Re:Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress by gepi79 on Monday November 05, 2018 @11:13AM (#18383444)
Ok. I thought you might have something particular or obvious in mind by mentioning self driving cars.

https://machineperson.org/existence.html#self-awareness

I have spent some time to answer my own questions. But I have neither the motivation nor the time and maybe not even the intelligence to learn and to understand the ideas most philosophers.

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