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I knew this title looked familiar! It was required reading when I took Searle's course. I always thought it funny that CogSci majors (basically the AI major a
by jedberg 1y ago
I knew this title looked familiar! It was required reading when I took Searle's course. I always thought it funny that CogSci majors (basically the AI major at Berkeley in the 90s) were required to take a course from a guy who strongly believed that computers can't think.
It would be like making every STEM major take a religion course.
- actionfromafar 1y agoNot a bad idea, actually. Religion is a big deal and it can only help to know the basics of how it works. Some of the fanboi behavior common in tech is at least religion adjacent.
- countrymile 1y agoNot sure that equivalence works, cognitive science doesn't require that people believe that computers can think; and STEM doesn't require that people think of the world in a purely mechanistic way - e.g. historically, many scientists were looking for the rules of a lawgiver. Apologies if I'm misreading you here.