Theory of the Mind/Strange Meditations on the Self and Soul: Strange Meditations on the Self and Soul

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Publish Date: 1999-08-01
Features: "What am I?" "Where am I?" For this not ordinary personal pronoun, but a synonym for the soul or spirit, "I," philosophy has a long and controversial research history. With the rise of computer science and the deepening of artificial intelligence research, these have always undergone new exploration and challenges. Some believe that the mind is to the body what software is to hardware. Since computers can simulate human thought, machines can also think. It can also be inferred that the mind can exist independently of the body. However, others argue that simulated thought is not real thought, just as a simulated milking process does not produce real milk, or simulated photosynthesis does not cause real photosynthesis. Around these issues, D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett compiled works from various perspectives to provoke discussion and reflection. Their true intention lies not in proving but in inspiring.