Chat GPT Philos

Machine Functionalism

A mental state is a fiunctional state. It relates inputs and outputs with pobability assignments. A functional organization, a collection of pobability assignments of every state, defines a system's "mind"

Functionalism

A mental state is a functional state that can be realized in different physical systems

Chinese Room Argument

An argument against the Turing test (and functionalism) that contends that computers are merely syntax-manipulating devices and have no grasp of semantics and the meaning of what they do.

Gettier Problem

Challenge to the justified true belief formulation of knowledge (clock, cow, etc.)

What is the inaccuacy argument?

It is the belief we consideed most tue are receivedeithe from the senses or through the senses.. However, sense ae sometimes deceptive

Are there foundations of knowledge? - from Descartes POV

Knowledge is built upon certain foundations (foundationalism)

Cartesian Dualism

Mind and Body are two different independent substance, although they can causally interact.

Turing Test

One method of determining the strength of artificial intelligence, in which a human tries to decide if the intelligence at the other end of a text chat is human.

Evil Genius Argument

Perhaps, there could be an evil genius, supemely powerful and clever who is devoted to deceiving me. My beliefs stay the same with or without an evil genius -- there is no way to rule out the counterfactua possibility. Therefore I am not justified in believing that 2+3=5, even if this belief happens to be true.

Methodological skepticism

Seeking indubitable foundations of knowledge.

Knowledge Argument

The argument that someone who knows all the objective neurological facts about the brain still does not know what it is like to see red, or have stereoptic vision, until they have those subjective experiences.

Compatibilism

The belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas, and that it is possible to believe both without being logically inconsistent.

Indeterminism

The belief that not all events are causally determined, but may result from human choice.

free will

The idea that human beings are free to make their own choices

Determinism

The idea that people's behavior is produced primarily by factors outside of their willful control.

Dream Argument

Thee are no definitive signs by which I can distinguish being awake fom being asleep. Perhaps I am dreaming and hence what I believe is false. Therefore I am not justified in believing that I am now in a classoom, even if this belief happens to be true.

Materialism

There are no mental states that are different from brain states. Mental states are real, but they are just brain states.

Property Dualism

There is an explanatory gap between the physical and the conscious. COnsciousness is a new fundamental property

Do we have knowledge about the external world at all? (Cartesian Skepticism)

We don't have knowledge about the extenal world. but I know I exist as long as I think

Does knowledge require certainty? - from Descartes POV

Yes, it requies completely certain and indubitable belief/justification