What your computer still can't know: A refutation of Bringsjord's refutation of searle's refutation of Bostrom and Floridi

Ahti Veikko Pietarinen

doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-708-5-280

What your computer still can't know: A refutation of Bringsjord's refutation of searle's refutation of Bostrom and Floridi

Ahti Veikko Pietarinen^*

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Department of Religion and Philosophy

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Abstract

I refute Bringsjord's attempted refutation of Searle, who has argued against two recent visions: Bostrom's super-intelligence (post-humanism) and Floridi's info-spheres (information revolution). My refutation derives from the impossibility of Turing machines to compute consequential information not linked with observations of its output. Placing post-humanism and information revolution under a philosophical perspective leads to an identification of an unspoken presupposition in both: universalism of meaning. A philosophical theory of information needs a semiotic theory of signs and representations that take information to be a property of signs that are linked with their interpreting minds.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	What Social Robots Can and Should Do
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2016/TRANSOR 2016
Editors	Johanna Seibt, Marco Nørskov, Søren Schack Andersen
Publisher	IOS Press
Pages	280-290
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9781614997085
ISBN (Print)	9781614997078
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-708-5-280
Publication status	Published - Oct 2016
Event	CFP Robophilosophy 2016/Research Network for Transdisciplinary Studies in Social Robotics, TRANSOR 2016 - Aarhus, Denmark Duration: 17 Oct 2016 → 21 Oct 2016 https://ebooks.iospress.nl/volume/what-social-robots-can-and-should-do-proceedings-of-robophilosophy-2016-transor-2016

Publication series

Name	Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume	290
ISSN (Print)	0922-6389

Conference

Conference	CFP Robophilosophy 2016/Research Network for Transdisciplinary Studies in Social Robotics, TRANSOR 2016
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Aarhus
Period	17/10/16 → 21/10/16
Internet address	https://ebooks.iospress.nl/volume/what-social-robots-can-and-should-do-proceedings-of-robophilosophy-2016-transor-2016

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Artificial Intelligence

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Info-spheres
Information revolution
Philosophy of information
Philosophy of mind
Philosophy of signs
Post-humanism
Searle
Super-intelligence

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Pietarinen, A. V. (2016). What your computer still can't know: A refutation of Bringsjord's refutation of searle's refutation of Bostrom and Floridi. In J. Seibt, M. Nørskov, & S. S. Andersen (Eds.), What Social Robots Can and Should Do: Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2016/TRANSOR 2016 (pp. 280-290). (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; Vol. 290). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-708-5-280

Pietarinen, Ahti Veikko. / What your computer still can't know : A refutation of Bringsjord's refutation of searle's refutation of Bostrom and Floridi. What Social Robots Can and Should Do: Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2016/TRANSOR 2016. editor / Johanna Seibt ; Marco Nørskov ; Søren Schack Andersen. IOS Press, 2016. pp. 280-290 (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications).

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Pietarinen, AV 2016, What your computer still can't know: A refutation of Bringsjord's refutation of searle's refutation of Bostrom and Floridi. in J Seibt, M Nørskov & SS Andersen (eds), What Social Robots Can and Should Do: Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2016/TRANSOR 2016. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 290, IOS Press, pp. 280-290, CFP Robophilosophy 2016/Research Network for Transdisciplinary Studies in Social Robotics, TRANSOR 2016, Aarhus, Denmark, 17/10/16. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-708-5-280

What your computer still can't know : A refutation of Bringsjord's refutation of searle's refutation of Bostrom and Floridi. / Pietarinen, Ahti Veikko.

What Social Robots Can and Should Do: Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2016/TRANSOR 2016. ed. / Johanna Seibt; Marco Nørskov; Søren Schack Andersen. IOS Press, 2016. p. 280-290 (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; Vol. 290).

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Pietarinen AV. What your computer still can't know: A refutation of Bringsjord's refutation of searle's refutation of Bostrom and Floridi. In Seibt J, Nørskov M, Andersen SS, editors, What Social Robots Can and Should Do: Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2016/TRANSOR 2016. IOS Press. 2016. p. 280-290. (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications). doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-708-5-280

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