What your computer still can't know: A refutation of Bringsjord's refutation of searle's refutation of Bostrom and Floridi

Ahti Veikko Pietarinen

doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-708-5-280

What your computer still can't know: A refutation of Bringsjord's refutation of searle's refutation of Bostrom and Floridi

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Abstract

I refute Bringsjord's attempted refutation of Searle, who has argued against two recent visions: Bostrom's super-intelligence (post-humanism) and Floridi's info-spheres (information revolution). My refutation derives from the impossibility of Turing machines to compute consequential information not linked with observations of its output. Placing post-humanism and information revolution under a philosophical perspective leads to an identification of an unspoken presupposition in both: universalism of meaning. A philosophical theory of information needs a semiotic theory of signs and representations that take information to be a property of signs that are linked with their interpreting minds.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	What Social Robots Can and Should Do - Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2016/TRANSOR 2016
Editors	Soren Schack Andersen, Johanna Seibt, Marco Norskov, Marco Norskov
Publisher	IOS Press
Pages	280-290
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9781614997078
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-708-5-280
Publication status	Published - Jan 1 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	CFP Robophilosophy 2016/Research Network for Transdisciplinary Studies in Social Robotics, TRANSOR 2016 - Aarhus, Denmark Duration: Oct 17 2016 → Oct 21 2016

Publication series

Name	Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume	290
ISSN (Print)	0922-6389

Conference

Conference	CFP Robophilosophy 2016/Research Network for Transdisciplinary Studies in Social Robotics, TRANSOR 2016
Country	Denmark
City	Aarhus
Period	10/17/16 → 10/21/16

Keywords

Info-spheres
Information revolution
Philosophy of information
Philosophy of mind
Philosophy of signs
Post-humanism
Searle
Super-intelligence

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence

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Pietarinen, A. V. (2016). What your computer still can't know: A refutation of Bringsjord's refutation of searle's refutation of Bostrom and Floridi. In S. S. Andersen, J. Seibt, M. Norskov, & M. Norskov (Eds.), What Social Robots Can and Should Do - Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2016/TRANSOR 2016 (pp. 280-290). (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; Vol. 290). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-708-5-280

What your computer still can't know : A refutation of Bringsjord's refutation of searle's refutation of Bostrom and Floridi. / Pietarinen, Ahti Veikko.

What Social Robots Can and Should Do - Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2016/TRANSOR 2016. ed. / Soren Schack Andersen; Johanna Seibt; Marco Norskov; Marco Norskov. IOS Press, 2016. p. 280-290 (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; Vol. 290).

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Pietarinen, AV 2016, What your computer still can't know: A refutation of Bringsjord's refutation of searle's refutation of Bostrom and Floridi. in SS Andersen, J Seibt, M Norskov & M Norskov (eds), What Social Robots Can and Should Do - Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2016/TRANSOR 2016. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 290, IOS Press, pp. 280-290, CFP Robophilosophy 2016/Research Network for Transdisciplinary Studies in Social Robotics, TRANSOR 2016, Aarhus, Denmark, 10/17/16. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-708-5-280

Pietarinen AV. What your computer still can't know: A refutation of Bringsjord's refutation of searle's refutation of Bostrom and Floridi. In Andersen SS, Seibt J, Norskov M, Norskov M, editors, What Social Robots Can and Should Do - Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2016/TRANSOR 2016. IOS Press. 2016. p. 280-290. (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-708-5-280

Pietarinen, Ahti Veikko. / What your computer still can't know : A refutation of Bringsjord's refutation of searle's refutation of Bostrom and Floridi. What Social Robots Can and Should Do - Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2016/TRANSOR 2016. editor / Soren Schack Andersen ; Johanna Seibt ; Marco Norskov ; Marco Norskov. IOS Press, 2016. pp. 280-290 (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications).

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