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Robinson's Podcast
Robinson Erhardt
239 - Ned Block: Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Philosophy of Mind
1 hour 35 minutes Posted Dec 29, 2024 at 5:00 pm.
Introduction
Ned’s Entry into Philosophy of Mind
On Hilary Putnam, John Rawls, and Philippa Foot
Can ChatGPT Do Multiplication?
Does Noam Chomsky Understand ChatGPT?
Is the Turing Test Completely Wrong?
On Daniel Dennett
On Michael Graziano and the Attention Schema Theory of Consciousness
Are Animals Conscious?
Does ChatGPT Pass the Turing Test?
Mary in the White Room
The Blockhead Thought Experiment
How to Show that ChatGPT Is Dumb
Why Can’t ChatGPT Reason About Images?
How to Create an Android
What Is Thought?
Susan Carey
Are There Different Kinds of Consciousness?
On Psychoanalysis
What Are Blindsight and Change Blindness?
The Difference Between Seeing and Thinking
Was Helen Keller Conscious?
Are Salmon Conscious?
What Are the Dominant Theories of Consciousness?
Do We Know What Consciousness Is?
Functionalism and Mental Properties
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Ned Block is Silver Professor at New York University in the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology, where he works on the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of neuroscience, and cognitive science. In this episode, Robinson and Ned discuss some of the titans he studied under, ChatGPT and the nature of artificial intelligence, the Turing Test, androids, consciousness, the connection between seeing and thinking, blindsight, change blindness, and more. Ned’s most recent book is The Border Between Seeing and Thinking (OUP, 2023).
Ned’s Website: https://www.nedblock.us
The Border Between Seeing and Thinking: https://a.co/d/fqVb7gj
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Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University.