Translating the machine: rearticulating intelligence and cognition
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2022
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Haverford College. Department of Philosophy
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Advances in artificial intelligence technologies are displacing human labor and continue to gain new capacities. Given these displacements, particularly those that not just displace physical tasks but mental ones, there are fears that machines will be able to do all of what humans can, but better. Many accounts of mind flat-out reject the notion that properly programmed computers can have a mind but struggle to provide an account for what they can do. This thesis will sketch such an account. First, it will follow philosophers of mind in accounting for the mind as embodied and constitutive of many behaviors and capacities before unifying the mind and computational resources through an account of cognition. Finally, the topic of translating cognitive contexts will be considered. In all, this will allow us to radically reconceptualize how to think of not just mental occurrences, but the relation between people, machines, and other cognitive beings.