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Robots, Zombies and Us : Understanding Consciousness by Kirk, Robert; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Robots, Zombies and Us : Understanding Consciousness about?

Could robots be genuinely intelligent? Could they be conscious? Could there be zombies? Prompted by these questions Robert Kirk introduces the main problems of consciousness and sets out a new approach to solving them. He starts by discussing behaviourism, Turing's test of intelligence and Searle's famous Chinese Room argument, and goes on to examine dualism – the idea that consciousness requires something beyond the physical – together with its opposite, physicalism. Probing the idea of zombies, he concludes they are logically impossible. Having presented the central problems, he sketches his solution: a version of functionalism, according to which consciousness consists in the performance of functions. While there is wide agreement among philosophers about what the main problems of consciousness are, there is little agreement on how to go about solving them. With this powerful case for his version of functionalism, Kirk offers an engaging introduction to both the problems and a possible solution. ** Review Kirk provides an excellent overview of the philosophical study of consciousness that is at once packed with arguments and accessible to those who are just beginning their study

Who reads Robots, Zombies and Us : Understanding Consciousness?

Author

Kirk, Robert;

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474286626

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics