Title : A learned dinner for man - Or how five philosophers and scientists discuss, during a sumptuous feast, the possibility of creating a machine as intelligent as man - John L. Casti - book

Summary :

One stormy summer evening in 1949, science writer CP Snow invited four unusual guests to a lavish dinner in the ancient setting of Christ's College, Cambridge, to discuss a question that had been nagging him: could a machine be built that could replicate human cognitive processes? During the course of the dinner, the discussion allowed each guest to clarify their views: the famous philosopher and logician Wittgenstein argued that in order to have consciousness, a machine would have to experience similar experiences to those of humans, such as pain, joy, or pleasure; biologist and mathematician JBS Haldane advanced the idea that mind was an entity separate from matter, and therefore only flesh could associate with that mysterious force called intelligence; while physicist E. Schrödinger and, of course, computer pioneer A. Turing argued that it was not substance but rather the organization of that substance that made a mind conscious. Nearly forty years later, the solution to this scientific and philosophical problem remains beyond our reach, and the debate thus reconstructed remains entirely contemporary.

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