APPENDIX A: Affirmations and Rejections
Foreword: A good portion of philosophy is reading the work of all those who've thought about it before now. As I come across different philosophers and specific remarks that they've made, I will update this appendix. Maybe it will help those better understand my positions as this will answer a lot of easy, fundamental questions. (Assumeing you're familar with the relevant remarks listed.)
*DISCLAIMER* This appendix suffers not just an appending ailment, but also a changing one. It is difficult to read everything there is on a philosopher or a concept, and while my first readings may be in affirmation or rejection, later readings might prove to be rejections or affirmations.
Affirmations (Remarks)
[ 1 ] Strong Artificial Intelligence, as the "appropriately programmed computer isn't simply a simulation or model of a mind; it actually counts as a mind."
[ 2 ] Monist belief, a rejection of duality in terms of the ethereal mind and the corporeal body. There is only the corporeal body and naturalism.
Affirmations (Philosophers)
[ 1 ] Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Accepted for his work on Existentialism.
[ 2 ] Jean-Paul Sartre - Also accepted for his work on Existentialism.
[ 3 ] Steven Arthur Pinker - Accepted for his work on Computational Theory of Mind and Evolutioanry Psychology.
[ 4 ] Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky - Accepted for his early work on pre-Existentialism components.
[ 5 ] David Hume - Accepted for his often skeptical (and considered valid) arguments against many other concepts such as Determinism as a Fatalistic synergy.
Affirmations (Schools of Thought)
[ 1 ] Existentialism
[ 2 ] Computational Theory of Mind
[ 3 ] Determinism (but NOT Fatalism!!)
[ 4 ] Darwinian Evolution
Rejections (Remarks)
[ 1 ] Turing Test, a test devised by Professor Alan Turing, which is a proposal for determining if a computer's AI is intelligent. This is rejected as being a weak proposal and can be broken with hypothetical objections such as the Chinese Room Experiment (John Searle).
[ 2 ] Chinese Room Experiment, devised by John Searle, is a proposal that attempts to skepticize the Strong AI remark by suggesting that advanced pattern recognition will falsify intelligence. This experiment is accepted in a time-sensitive case ONLY and due to the greater potential of experimental failure in the future, it is rejected as a Inconclusive Objection.
Rejections (Philosophers)
[ 1 ] Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - While his ideas are still, even today (200 years after his death), are being revisited and reinterpreted, the current school of thoughts that supported Marxism are the commonly accepted views of Hegelism and thus Hegel is rejected from my works.
[ 2 ] John Rogers Searle - His attempts to show computers as incapable of intelligence, while evaluate to some valid results now, miss the point that computers are still evolving.
[ 3 ] Hubert Dreyfus - He has come up with many ideas and objections to Artificial Intelligence, and all of them are primarily negative towards our current day progression. While I might agree with a few points here and there produced by Dreyfus, for the most part, I disagree with his primary topics such as the "unrepresentational nature of the expert mind".
Rejections (Schools of Thought)
[ 1 ] Dualism - Belief in seperation between consciousness and body. (Hard translation - SOUL)
[ 2 ] Creationism - Omnipotent creation of life.
[ 3 ] Fatalism - Lack of free-will.
*DISCLAIMER* This appendix suffers not just an appending ailment, but also a changing one. It is difficult to read everything there is on a philosopher or a concept, and while my first readings may be in affirmation or rejection, later readings might prove to be rejections or affirmations.
Affirmations (Remarks)
[ 1 ] Strong Artificial Intelligence, as the "appropriately programmed computer isn't simply a simulation or model of a mind; it actually counts as a mind."
[ 2 ] Monist belief, a rejection of duality in terms of the ethereal mind and the corporeal body. There is only the corporeal body and naturalism.
Affirmations (Philosophers)
[ 1 ] Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Accepted for his work on Existentialism.
[ 2 ] Jean-Paul Sartre - Also accepted for his work on Existentialism.
[ 3 ] Steven Arthur Pinker - Accepted for his work on Computational Theory of Mind and Evolutioanry Psychology.
[ 4 ] Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky - Accepted for his early work on pre-Existentialism components.
[ 5 ] David Hume - Accepted for his often skeptical (and considered valid) arguments against many other concepts such as Determinism as a Fatalistic synergy.
Affirmations (Schools of Thought)
[ 1 ] Existentialism
[ 2 ] Computational Theory of Mind
[ 3 ] Determinism (but NOT Fatalism!!)
[ 4 ] Darwinian Evolution
Rejections (Remarks)
[ 1 ] Turing Test, a test devised by Professor Alan Turing, which is a proposal for determining if a computer's AI is intelligent. This is rejected as being a weak proposal and can be broken with hypothetical objections such as the Chinese Room Experiment (John Searle).
[ 2 ] Chinese Room Experiment, devised by John Searle, is a proposal that attempts to skepticize the Strong AI remark by suggesting that advanced pattern recognition will falsify intelligence. This experiment is accepted in a time-sensitive case ONLY and due to the greater potential of experimental failure in the future, it is rejected as a Inconclusive Objection.
Rejections (Philosophers)
[ 1 ] Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - While his ideas are still, even today (200 years after his death), are being revisited and reinterpreted, the current school of thoughts that supported Marxism are the commonly accepted views of Hegelism and thus Hegel is rejected from my works.
[ 2 ] John Rogers Searle - His attempts to show computers as incapable of intelligence, while evaluate to some valid results now, miss the point that computers are still evolving.
[ 3 ] Hubert Dreyfus - He has come up with many ideas and objections to Artificial Intelligence, and all of them are primarily negative towards our current day progression. While I might agree with a few points here and there produced by Dreyfus, for the most part, I disagree with his primary topics such as the "unrepresentational nature of the expert mind".
Rejections (Schools of Thought)
[ 1 ] Dualism - Belief in seperation between consciousness and body. (Hard translation - SOUL)
[ 2 ] Creationism - Omnipotent creation of life.
[ 3 ] Fatalism - Lack of free-will.
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