The “Brain in a Vat” Gedankenexperiment

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Cavallaro, D.. (2004). The brain in a vat in cyberpunk: The persistence of the flesh. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

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Smart, J. J. C.. (2004). The brain in the vat and the question of metaphysical realism. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

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Sprevak, M., & McLeish, C.. (2004). Magic, semantics, and Putnam’s vat brains. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

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Black, T.. (2002). A moorean response to brain-in-a-vat scepticism. Australasian Journal of Philosophy

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Proctor, R. N., & Schiebinger, L.. (2008). Agnotology: the making and unmaking of ignorance. Organization Studies

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A quantum psychophysics perspective on bistable perception

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Abstract algorithmic digital art

Digital algorithmic artwork by Christopher B. Germann

The Chinese Room Argument against genuine artificial intelligence

Keywords: Syntax versus semantics; the problem of symbol grounding; meaning and AI, creativity and AI, intelligence and AI, embodied cognition, disembodied computation.
URL: rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil201/Searle.pdf

See also: plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/


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Waskan, J.. (2006). Views into the Chinese Room: New Essays on Searle and Artificial Intelligence. Philosophical Review

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Harnad, S.. (2005). Searle’s Chinese Room Argument. In Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Rodríguez, D., Hermosillo, J., & Lara, B.. (2012). Meaning in artificial agents: The symbol grounding problem revisited. Minds and Machines

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Wakefield, J. C.. (2003). The Chinese room argument reconsidered: Essentialism, indeterminacy, and strong AI. Minds and Machines

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Teng, N. Y.. (2002). A cognitive analysis of the Chinese room argument. Philosophical Psychology

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