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