?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Review+of+The+Emperor's+New+Mind+Concerning+Computers%2C+Minds%2C+and+the+Laws+of+Physics.&rft.creator=Dennett%2C+Daniel+C&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Machine+Learning&rft.description=The+idea+that+a+computer+could+be+conscious--or+equivalently%2C+that+human+consciousness+is+the+effect+of+some+complex+computation+mechanically+performed+by+our+brains--strikes+some+scientists+and+philosophers+as+a+beautiful+idea.+They+find+it+initially+surprising+and+unsettling%2C+as+all+beautiful+ideas+are%2C+but+the+inevitable+culmination+of+the+scientific+advances+that+have+gradually+demystified+and+unified+the+material+world.+The+ideologues+of+Artificial+Intelligence+(AI)+have+been+its+most+articulate+supporters.+To+others%2C+this+idea+is+deeply+repellent%3A+philistine%2C+reductionistic+(in+some+bad+sense)%2C+as+incredible+as+it+is+offensive.+John+Searle's+attack+on+%22strong+AI%22+is+the+best+known+expression+of+this+view%2C+but+others+in+the+same+camp%2C+liking+Searle's+destination+better+than+his+route%2C+would+dearly+love+to+see+a+principled%2C+scientific+argument+showing+that+strong+AI+is+impossible.+Roger+Penrose+has+set+out+to+provide+just+such+an+argument.&rft.date=1989-09&rft.type=Newspaper%2FMagazine+Article&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F432%2F1%2Fpenrose.htm&rft.identifier=++Dennett%2C+Daniel+C++(1989)+Review+of+The+Emperor's+New+Mind+Concerning+Computers%2C+Minds%2C+and+the+Laws+of+Physics.++%5BNewspaper%2FMagazine+Article%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F432%2F