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Ever since the wheel was designed humans have been looking for ways to reduce their daily burdens with the help of machines. Today humans and machines work side by side. They watch over and control how our money is distributed, out missile defense even how much soda we get at the movie theatre. All machines can do with the help or humans. We are still trying to improve on that, we are trying to give machines more autonomy, which in turn means less work for humans, it is not only the work aspect but the creation of something that comes close to ourselves that inspire humans to create. This has led philosophers to the question what makes us who we are. William Lycan is a philosopher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who is a proponent of the view he calls ˇ§homunctionalismˇ¨ in which he believes mental capacities are made up of committees of committees of stupid submental capacities. His 1987 essay Robots and Minds from a larger piece entitled Consciousness starts to answer the question of how close to humans have computer come. He explains them using three questions, I will use those questions to look at and gauge how close to humans the current computers are. They are: „X Will a computer ever be able to do X? X being a task that intelligent humans can do. „X Given that a computer can do X, have we any reason to think that it does X in the same way that humans do X?
Approximate Word count = 954
Approximate Pages = 3.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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