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* Descartes "I think therefore I am" | * Descartes "I think therefore I am" | ||
* John Locke was the first to define the self through a continuity of consciousness. He postulated that, at birth, the mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa. Contrary to Cartesian philosophy based on pre-existing concepts, he maintained that we are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception.[13] This is now known as empiricism. | * John Locke was the first to define the self through a continuity of consciousness. He postulated that, at birth, the mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa. Contrary to Cartesian philosophy based on pre-existing concepts, he maintained that we are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception.[13] This is now known as empiricism. | ||
| − | * Alan Turning proved to have the best definition while claiming not to address the definition of it at all. In [[Knowledge#Context]] | + | * Alan Turning proved to have the best definition while claiming not to address the definition of it at all. In [[Knowledge#Context]]. He described an interrogator, who is given the task of trying to determine which of two players: A or B on the other end of teletypewriter links is a computer and which is a human. The interrogator is limited to using the responses to typed in questions to make the determination. Turing proposed his test in 1950 to help answer the question "can machines think?" |
Revision as of 19:33, 14 August 2019
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A simple idea of "self aware" well-know by most people, yet raised to a religion by philosophers,
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- Descartes "I think therefore I am"
- John Locke was the first to define the self through a continuity of consciousness. He postulated that, at birth, the mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa. Contrary to Cartesian philosophy based on pre-existing concepts, he maintained that we are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception.[13] This is now known as empiricism.
- Alan Turning proved to have the best definition while claiming not to address the definition of it at all. In Knowledge#Context. He described an interrogator, who is given the task of trying to determine which of two players: A or B on the other end of teletypewriter links is a computer and which is a human. The interrogator is limited to using the responses to typed in questions to make the determination. Turing proposed his test in 1950 to help answer the question "can machines think?"
