Turing tests, Chinese Rooms, Sherlock Holmes, Wittgensteinian Vagueness and Descartes
Interview by Richard Marshall.
‘Brain research can make no contribution to traditional philosophical questions. These are conceptual, not empirical, and therefore no empirical discovery can shed light on the issues they involve.
But even more specific, non-conceptual questions that can be asked by neuroscientists sometimes involve problematic conceptual assumptions which might undermine them. I think the search for a brain correlate of voluntary action is one such case.‘
LINK TO ARTICLE:http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/turing-tests-chinese-rooms-sherlock-holmes-wittgensteinian-vagueness-descartes/?utm_content=buffer71387&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
‘Brain research can make no contribution to traditional philosophical questions. These are conceptual, not empirical, and therefore no empirical discovery can shed light on the issues they involve.
But even more specific, non-conceptual questions that can be asked by neuroscientists sometimes involve problematic conceptual assumptions which might undermine them. I think the search for a brain correlate of voluntary action is one such case.‘
LINK TO ARTICLE:http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/turing-tests-chinese-rooms-sherlock-holmes-wittgensteinian-vagueness-descartes/?utm_content=buffer71387&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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