building AI: never with consciousness (Humans)

by David Turell , Monday, May 25, 2015, 17:54 (3259 days ago) @ David Turell

Gelernter on AI. Computers are just machines. The mind is not:-http://inference-review.com/article/the-mind-in-its-place-"The mind is its own place, John Milton observed. But where is this place, and what is its structure? Where is the map? I argue that our unwillingness to confront these simple questions has got us into deep trouble. Too many thinkers have let themselves be guided by an analogy instead of a map. The analogy in this case is an important part of modern intellectual history; it is over half a century old, and remains deeply influential and deeply misleading. My emphasis is on the analogy itself and its remarkable influence on science, philosophy, and popular culture.-The brain is not a computer. The mind is not its software."