Historical, Philosophical, Political and Law Sciences, Culturology and Study of Art. Issues of Theory and Practice. Tambov: Gramota, 2015. № 12. Part 3. P. 165-168.
THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS OF ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY OF CONSCIOUSNESS: THROUGH THE LENSES OF CRITICISM
Suz'ko Ol'ga Leonidovna
Far Eastern Federal University
Abstract. The article examines the peculiarities of argumentation common in the framework of the analytical philosophy of consciousness. The analysis is conducted by the example of several thought experiments - "Mary’s Room" and "Chinese Room", - which, each in its own aspect, are aimed at the proof of a peculiar status of consciousness in the physical world. The focus is made on the critical comprehension of the data of thought experiments by the leading analytical philosophers of the end of the XX century.
Key words and phrases: аналитическая философия сознания, мысленный эксперимент, квалиа, "Комната Мэри", "Китайская комната", "сильный" ИИ, analytical philosophy of consciousness, thought experiment, qualia, "Mary’s Room", "Chinese Room", "strong" AI
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