1. By: Nikki and Dhando

3. Gilbert Ryle - Behaviorism
 Mental states are identical to
behavior.
 Zombies do not have mental states
 Zombies have behavior
 Zombies can’t exist, according to
behaviorism

4. Functionalism
 Includes the explanation of
behaviorism
 There is a connection between
mental states and behavior
 What’s in between the input and
output action
 Qualia

5. The Turing Test
 If a computer can do everything we
can
 Why not treat it the same way
 It can be considered to have
consciousness

6. Chinese Room Experiment
 Someone’s job to live in a room
 Receive chinese characters on paper
through a slot in the wall
 Follow instructions and write something
back
 Put it back through the slot
 Does not have any true idea of what it’s
doing
 Programmed to reply with the correct
symbol

7. Thomas Nagel
 ‘Imagine that one has webbing on one’s
arm, which enables one to fly around at dusk
and dawn catching insects in one’s mouth; that
one has very poor vision, and perceives the
surrounding world by a system of reflected
high-frequency sound signals; and that one
spends the day hanging upside down by one’s
feet in an attic. In so far I can imagine this
(which is not very far), it tells me only what it
would be like for me to behave as a bat
behaves. But that is not the question. I want to
know what it is like for a bat to be a bat.’

8. The psychological part
 Emotions affect and influence
intelligence greatly
 Technology/ artificial intelligence lacks a
brain
 Technology cannot learn the way we/
animals can
 Technology cannot create but is created

9. What Mary didn’t know (Qualia)
 Mary was born into a black and white world
 Grew up only seeing black and white
 She learned everything there was to know
about colors
 But never experienced it herself
 Scientist brought a tomato into her world
 She experienced it differently
 You won’t ever know everything about
something without experiencing it

10. However…