On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Brian Siano wrote:
> Dwayne Monroe wrote:
>
> >The exciting (depending upon your opinion of
> >artificial minds) predictions of strong AI proponents
> >are built upon the observation that computing power
> >grows by orders of magnitude at regular intervals.
> >
> >
> This isn't correct. The predictions of strong AI are also built upon the
> observation that, as we begin to understand more and more about
> cognition, it will be possible to apply that understanding to design
> mechanical systems to perform the same tasks. Thus, we will reach a time
> when mechanical systems will be comparable to human intelligence.
The assumption here is that human cognition is the output from something like a machine, and that the human "cognition machine" could be mimiced with a computer machine. Many cognitive psychologists disagree with this mechanistic view of the mind (e.g., Neisser, Sternberg).
Consider: what if we learn more and more about human cognition and we discover it's nothing like machine output?
Miles