Wright’s Essay Can Machines think? Maybe so, as Deep Blue’s Chess Prowess Suggests, suggests many things about machines. Wright explains what he believes machines are capable of doing. He poses the question: Are machines better than human beings?
Wright explains that Alan Turing believes that machines may be smarter than us or quicker than us, but will never exceed us. No matter how advanced machines are, they will never have souls. Human beings have subjective feelings or conscious. A machine’s conscious consists of what it is programmed to do. We cannot be programmed in that way and therefore, we will always make choices using our conscious; moral or unmoral.
Another machine, called Cog, can have consciousness. Chalmers poses the problem about consciousness being necessary in his book The Unconscious Mind. He believes the world could work just as well without consciousness. He believes that consciousness was put into this world to give it significance. It does change physical aspects of the world by influencing behavior.
In this essay, Wright explains how they are two sides to the argument. Chalmers is not clear on what he believes and therefore, causing this to be very controversial. Chalmers also explains that we may be creating a new species of sentient life, without thinking of the consequences.
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