Consciousness, Agents and the Knowledge Game
Floridi, Luciano (2005) Consciousness, Agents and the Knowledge Game.
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Abstract
This paper has three goals. The first is to introduce the “knowledge game”, a new, simple and yet powerful tool for analysing some intriguing philosophical questions. The second is to apply the knowledge game as an informative test to discriminate between conscious (human) and conscious-less agents (zombies and robots), depending on which version of the game they can win. And the third is to use a version of the knowledge game to provide an answer to Dretske’s question “how do you know you are not a zombie?”.
| Keywords: | Artificial agents, consciousness, inferentialism, knowledge game, “muddy children” theorem, “the three wise men” theorem, zombies. |
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| Subjects: | Specific Sciences: Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence |
| ID Code: | 2546 |
| Deposited By: | Floridi, Luciano |
| Deposited On: | 27 November 2005 |
| Additional Information: | forthcoming in Minds and Machines |