VoicesSäsong 1984
A forum of debate, which aired in the early 1980s, about the key issues in the world of the arts and the life of the mind
Where to Watch Voices • Säsong 1984
10 Episodes
- Artificial Intelligence: New Minds for OldA2
Artificial Intelligence: New Minds for OldTed Honderich, professor of philosophy at University College, London, introduces the second of 10 arguments highlighting the turmoil of contemporary ideas which challenge our perception of ourselves and the world we live in. Rapid and extraordinary developments in computer science have given birth to a new discipline — artificial intelligence — and with it have come new philosophical and psychological models of human beings. Margaret Boden, professor of philosophy and psychology at Sussex University, argues that computers will be able to replicate unique human qualities such as intelligence, understanding and consciousness. John Searle, professor of philosophy at the University of California Berkeley, sets out to prove that computers cannot, under any circumstances, have human qualities. " - Scientific Reason: Truth or Illusion?A9
Scientific Reason: Truth or Illusion?Few would doubt that science opens the only real gate to truth. But increasingly, the highly questionable nature of technological progress has led to creeping doubt. How true are the laws and methods of science? Kurt Hubner argues that science is merely one construction of reality, no more or less true than many other forms of knowledge displaced by science. He discusses this with Bob Young and Professor John Charap. Introduced by Roy Porter.