Abstract

Introduction This book and its predecessor The Emperor's New Mind argue that natural minds cannot be understood and artificial minds cannot be constructed without new physics, about which the book gives some ideas. We have no objection to new physics but don't see it as necessary for artificial intelligence. We see artificial intelligence research as making definite progress on difficult scientific problems. I take it that students of natural intelligence also see present physics as adequate for understanding mind. This review concerns only some problems with the first part of the book. 1 2 Awareness and Understanding Penrose discusses awareness and understanding briefly and concludes (with no references to the AI literature) that AI researchers have no idea of how to make computer programs with these qualities. I substantially agree with his characterizations of awareness and unders

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1359	Some philosophical problems from the standpoint of artificial intelligence - McCarthy, Hayes - 1969
636	Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Abelson, Sussman, et al. - 1985
75	The consistency of the axiom of choice and of the generalized continuum hypothesis - Gödel - 1940
71	Making robots conscious of their mental states - McCarthy - 1995
14	Formalizing common sense - McCarthy - 1990
8	Artificial Intelligence and Logic - McCarthy - 1989
4	Turing in the land of O(z - Feferman - 1988
1	1990a): Review of The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose - McCarthy - 1990
1	Notes on Formalizing Context" IJCAI-93. Morgan-Kauffman. Also accessible from http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/home.html - McCarthy - 1993