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Western Kentucky University TopSCHOLAR® Honors College Capstone Experience/esis Projects Honors College at WKU Spring 1990 A Philosophical Critique of Artificial Intelligence David Miller Western Kentucky University Follow this and additional works at: hp://digitalcommons.wku.edu/stu_hon_theses Part of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Commons is esis is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors College Capstone Experience/ esis Projects by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Miller, David, "A Philosophical Critique of Artificial Intelligence" (1990). Honors College Capstone Experience/esis Projects. Paper 201. hp://digitalcommons.wku.edu/stu_hon_theses/201
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Western Kentucky UniversityTopSCHOLAR®Honors College Capstone Experience/ThesisProjects Honors College at WKU
Spring 1990
A Philosophical Critique of Artificial IntelligenceDavid MillerWestern Kentucky University
Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/stu_hon_theses
Part of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Commons
This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact [email protected].
Recommended CitationMiller, David, "A Philosophical Critique of Artificial Intelligence" (1990). Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects. Paper201.http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/stu_hon_theses/201
A PHILOSOPHICAL CRITIQUEOF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
by
David Miller
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for
The Western Kentucky UniversityHonors Program
Spring 1990
A PHILOSOPHICAL CRITIQUE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The term "Artificial Intelligence" creates fantastic
images of robots and omniscient machines. Of all the
technological pursuits, Artificial Intelligence best
epitomizes man's thirst for technology. The science of
making machines think stands at the apex of man's mission,
reflecting not only his desire for control over his world but
also his quest to control himself. To create a machine
capable of thought -- rational life -- would mean that man
would have achieved a dream as old as technology itself.
Just as the field of medicine promises longevity,
Artificial Intelligence (AI) implies that man can at last be
his own master. Eternal and masterful, he may finally
control his world. Control over the human mind in the form
of external embodiment is control over man as surely as the
knowledge of physics is dominion over nature. AI is the goal
to end all goals for those modern computer scientists who
implement cognitive theories on machines.
There is no doubt that the information age has given
mankind his most prosperous status to date, and current
trends show technological capacity increasing with no end in
sight. Likewise, the impact of computer technology has had a
