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Open AccessDevelo** Creativity: Artificial Barriers in Artificial Intelligence
The greatest rhetorical challenge to developers of creative artificial intelligence systems is convincingly arguing that their software is more than just an extension of their own creativity. This paper sugges...
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Open AccessComputational Meta-Ethics
It has been argued that ethically correct robots should be able to reason about right and wrong. In order to do so, they must have a set of do’s and don’ts at their disposal. However, such a list may be incons...
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Open AccessTuring Interrogative Games
The issue of adequacy of the Turing Test (TT) is addressed. The concept of Turing Interrogative Game (TIG) is introduced. We show that if some conditions hold, then each machine, even a thinking one, loses a c...
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Open AccessGiovanni Sommaruga (ed): Formal Theories of Information: From Shannon to Semantic Information Theory and General Concepts of Information
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Open AccessOn the Behavior of True and False
Uzquiano (Analysis 70:39–44, 2010) showed that the Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever (HLPE) [in its amended form due to Rabern and Rabern (Analysis 68:105–112, 2008)] has a solution in only two questions. Uzquiano conclu...
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Open AccessOn the Possibility of Quantum Informational Structural Realism
In The Philosophy of Information, Luciano Floridi presents an ontological theory of Being qua Being, which he calls “Informational Structural Realism”, a theory which applies, he says, to every possible world. He...
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Open AccessThe Comprehensibility Theorem and the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
Problem-solving software that is not-necessarily infallible is central to AI. Such software whose correctness and incorrectness properties are deducible by agents is an issue at the foundations of AI. The Com...
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Open AccessUploading and Branching Identity
If a brain is uploaded into a computer, will consciousness continue in digital form or will it end forever when the brain is destroyed? Philosophers have long debated such dilemmas and classify them as questio...
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Open AccessSelection for Representation in Higher-Order Adaptation
A theory of the evolution of mind cannot be complete without an explanation of how cognition became representational. Artificial approximations of cognitive evolution do not, in general, produce representation...
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Open AccessA Chance for Attributable Agency
Can we sensibly attribute some of the happenings in our world to the agency of some of the things around us? We do this all the time, but there are conceptual challenges purporting to show that attributable ag...
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Open AccessOptimal Behavior is Easier to Learn than the Truth
We consider a reinforcement learning setting where the learner is given a set of possible models containing the true model. While there are algorithms that are able to successfully learn optimal behavior in th...
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Open AccessA Theorem about Computationalism and “Absolute” Truth
This article focuses on issues related to improving an argument about minds and machines given by Kurt Gödel in 1951, in a prominent lecture. Roughly, Gödel’s argument supported the conjecture that either the ...
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Open AccessThere’s Plenty of Boole at the Bottom: A Reversible CA Against Information Entropy
“There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”, said the title of Richard Feynman’s 1959 seminal conference at the California Institute of Technology. Fifty years on, nanotechnologies have led computer scientists to pay ...
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Open AccessSituating Machine Intelligence Within the Cognitive Ecology of the Internet
The Internet is an important focus of attention for the philosophy of mind and cognitive science communities. This is partly because the Internet serves as an important part of the material environment in whic...
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Open AccessA Plea for Non-naturalism as Constructionism
Contemporary science seems to be caught in a strange predicament. On the one hand, it holds a firm and reasonable commitment to a healthy naturalistic methodology, according to which explanations of natural ph...
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Open AccessDeterrence by Norms to Stop Interstate Cyber Attacks
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Open AccessA Constructionist Philosophy of Logic
This paper develops and refines the suggestion that logical systems are conceptual artefacts that are the outcome of a design-process by exploring how a constructionist epistemology and meta-philosophy can be ...
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Open AccessThe Logic of Design as a Conceptual Logic of Information
In this article, I outline a logic of design of a system as a specific kind of conceptual logic of the design of the model of a system, that is, the blueprint that provides information about the system to be c...
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Open AccessThe Political Economy of Death in the Age of Information: A Critical Approach to the Digital Afterlife Industry
Online technologies enable vast amounts of data to outlive their producers online, thereby giving rise to a new, digital form of afterlife presence. Although researchers have begun investigating the nature of ...
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Open AccessPredictive Processing and the Representation Wars
Clark has recently suggested that predictive processing advances a theory of neural function with the resources to put an ecumenical end to the “representation wars” of recent cognitive science. In this paper ...
