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Smirnov, E. V. Turing Machine and Human: Ontognoseological Aspect of Computer Metaphor of Consciousness

Abstract: The article considers current approaches to interpretation of computer metaphor of consciousness in modern philosophy of consciousness and analyzes justification of the analogies ‘consciousness — mind’ and ‘program — hardware’. Based on the sign of such relation, the author suggests his own classification of approaches: algorithmic, causal-cultural and causal-biological approaches to interpretation of computer metaphor of consciousness. Base on this classification, the author makes certain conclusions about their role in ontology and gnoseology and considers the perspectives of the idea about the ‘strong’ artificial intellect in the framework of existing approaches to development of the artificial intellect.


Keywords:

philosophy, consciousness, artificial intellect, Turing machine, computer metaphor of consciousness, algorithm, cogitation, program, functionalism, connectivism.


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