Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism
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Classical AI-functionalism is the claim that there is some program such that anything that runs that program can pass the Turing test, that is, can deploy a vocabulary in the same sense in which any other language-users do. And that is to say that a computer language, in which any such algorithm can be expressed, is in principle VP-sufficient to specify abilities that are PV-sufficient to deploy an autonomous vocabulary. So in my terms, classical AI-functionalism claims that computer languages are in principle sufficient pragmatic metavocabularies for some autonomous vocabulary. Since computer languages (syntactically, context-free languages) are not themselves autonomous vocabularies, the basic claim of AI-functionalism is a strict expressive bootstrapping claim about computer languages as pragmatic metavocabularies for much more expressively powerful vocabularies: natural languages. It is a claim about what one must be able to do in order to count thereby as saying anything.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007