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Home / Podcast Episodes / Ep. 21: Mind (Turing, et al)
Alan Turing

Ep. 21: Mind (Turing, et al)

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Episode for Purchase: Discussing articles by Alan Turing, Gilbert Ryle, Thomas Nagel, John Searle, and Dan Dennett. What is this mind stuff, and how can it “be” the brain? Can computers think? What is it like to be a bat? With guest Marco Wise.

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Category: Podcast Episodes Tags: Alan Turning, Daniel C. Dennett, Gilbert Ryle, John Searle, philosophy of mind, Thomas Nagel
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What is the mind? Can it be understood in purely in physical terms? Could a computer be truly intelligent? We introduce the philosophy of mind by discussing the following readings:

1. Alan Turing’s 1950 paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” (Read it in The Annotated Turing)

2. A chapter of Gilbert Ryle’s 1949 book The Concept of Mind called “Descartes’ Myth.”

3. Thomas Nagel’s 1974 essay “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” (Read it in the collection Mortal Questions)

4. John Searle’s Chinese Room argument, discussed in a 1980 piece, “Minds, Brains and Programs.” (Read it in the collection Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary Readings, eds. Timothy O'Connor and David Robb.)

5. Daniel C. Dennett’s 1988 article “Quining Qualia.” (Get it along with many of these other essays in Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings, ed. David Chalmers)

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Running Time: 2 hrs, 20 min. Recorded: June 13, 2010. Participants: Mark, Wes, Seth, Marco Wise.

As a bonus, your purchase includes a high-bitrate mp3 of the song that concludes the episode, "No Mind" from Mark's album Mark Lint and the Fake Johnson Trio (1998)

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