Philosophy, engineering, biology, and history: a vindication of Turing's views about the distin

2025-03-04 Classification：Philosophy Click()
Author：Leiber, J

Article Title：Philosophy, engineering, biology, and history: a vindication of Turing's views about the distinction between the cognitive and physical sciences

Abstract：
Alan Turing draws a firm line between the mental and the physical, between the cognitive and physical sciences. For Turing, following a tradition that went back to D'Arcy Thompson, if not Geoffroy and Lucretius, throws out talk of function, intentionality, and final causes from biology as a physical science. He likens mother nature'' to the earnest A. I. scientist, who may send to school disparate versions of the child machine,'' eventually hoping for a test-passer but knowing that the vagaries of his experimental course are history and accident.

Keywords: evolution; adaptationism; Turing test; Turing structures; cognitive science; physical science

DOI: 10.1080/09528130210153550

Source：JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL & THEORETICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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