Bilkent ACM SIGART (Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence)

Seminar...

"Are computers real?"

by

John Bolender

Philosphy Department

Bilkent University

Abstract

Searle claims that it is scientifically worthless to say that thought is computational since computation is not an objective feature of reality in the way that, say, mass or shape is. Against Searle, I try to show how computation can be understood as an objective phenomenon.

Friday 12th November, 1999

at 17:40 in EA502 (Eng. Building)

Everyone Welcome