philosophy of mind

typical questions

• Can a human being do things that a Turing machine cannot?
• What are the differences between people, animals, and machines?
• Can a computer be conscious? Sentient? A person?

search terms

• philosophy of mind
• artificial general intelligence
• consciousness
• free will
• philosophical zombie
• turing test
• chinese room
• qualia

wikipedia starting points

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_consciousness
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_psychology
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

articles

• http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2756
• discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11823781

• https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer
• discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11729499

• http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/how-consciousness-evolved/485558/
• discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11849621

• http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man-who-would-teach-machines-to-think/309529/
• discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6605015

• https://philosophynow.org/issues/87/Philosophy_of_Mind_An_Overview

• http://www.philosophybasics.com/branch_philosophy_of_mind.html

people

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Descartes
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searle
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chalmers