creators_name: McCarthy, John
type: preprint
datestamp: 1998-02-27
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:53
metadata_visibility: show
title: Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
full_text_status: public
abstract: Ascribing mental qualities like beliefs, intentions and wants to a machine is sometimes correct if done conservatively and is sometimes necessary to express what is known about its state. We propose some new definitional tools for this: definitions relative to an approximate theory and second order structural definitions. 
date: 1979-07
date_type: published
refereed: FALSE
citation:   McCarthy, John  (1979) Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines.  [Preprint]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/416/2/ascribing.ps