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limitations of artificial intelligence and cognitive science
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metaphysics and epistemology
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coordinated movement
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program execution
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structured programming
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vitalism, the soul
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reductionism
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thought is computational
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skepticism about knowledge
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knowledge representation
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infinity and infinitesimal
Reference
Dennett, D.C., "Artificial intelligence as philosophy and as psychology", in Ringle, M. (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence, Atlantic Highlands NJ, 1978. Google
Other Reference
page numbers from p. 711-723, Cahn, S.M., Kitcher, P., Sher, G. (eds.), Reason at work: introductory readings in philosophy, Second edition, Fort Worth Texas: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1990, 1984.
716 ;;Quote: the thinness of the psychological reality of AI models may be masked by marvelous verisimilitude; e.g., SHRDLU answers appropriately even though the response is canned
719 ;;Quote: even though a program may appear graceful, it looks like a Rube Goldberg machine when executed by hand
719+;;Quote: unlike AI, perhaps nature is graceful all the way down
719+;;Quote: the speed of computers and their apparent grace opens the possibility that computation plays a role in cognition
719 ;;Quote: psychology must posit internal representations, but something is a representation only for or to someone; i.e., a homunculus that leads to an infinite regress
719+;;Quote: AI's data structures are primitive examples of representations that understand themselves; can conceivably replace the homunculus with an army of mechanical homunculi
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