Finally, I want to conclude this book with some thoughts about AI that you may find interesting.
The crucial questions to ask if we are considering the philosophical side of artificial intelligence are: how do minds work? Is it possible that machines act intelligently in the way people do? Can machines be conscious?
These simple questions have sparked a great deal of controversy over the past century (and they still do). The aim of this section is not to discuss them thoroughly, but to provide very general ideas about the interesting dialogue around these issues and to stimulate your interest in reading more literature on them.
Gödel's incompleteness theorem states that, for any formal axiomatic system, F, that's powerful enough to do arithmetic, it is possible to construct a sentence, G (F), with the following properties:
- G (F) is a phrase of...
