Computation and the Three Worlds

Author: Radovan M.

Source: Minds and Machines, Volume 10, Number 2, May 2000 , pp. 255-265(11)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

Discussions about the achievements and limitations of the various approaches to the development of intelligent systems can have an essential impact on empirically based research, and with that also on the future development of computer technologies. However, such discussions are often based on vague concepts and assumptions. In this context, we claim that the proposed `three-world ontology' offers the most appropriate conceptual framework in which the basic problems concerned with cognition and computation can be suitably expressed and discussed, although the solutions of some of these problems seem to lie beyond the horizon of our current understanding. We stress the necessity to differentiate between authentic and functional cognitive abilities; although computation is not a plausible way towards authentic intelligence, we claim that computational systems do offer virtually unlimited possibilities to replicate and surpass human cognitive abilities on the functional level.

Keywords: mind; computation; subjectivity; understanding; intelligence; thinking; creating; three-world ontology; care thesis; background thesis

Language: English

Document Type: Regular paper

Affiliations: 1: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Information Sciences, Omladinska 14, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia; E-mail: mradovan@oliver.efpu.hr

Publication date: 2000-05-01