The Empirical Heart of Mathematics

Mathematics is often grouped together with the many other sciences, despite science supposedly being an empirical study of some domain; while math for centuries has been claimed by the rationalists. I argue however that math is indeed a kind of science, albeit a very strange one. While physics is the study of natural laws, chemistry …

John Searle’s Error: A Defense of the Turing Test

The Turing test, developed by Alan Turing, is a method which is used in the field of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) to determine whether an agent is intelligent in some manner. It does so by asking the agent to perform a series of tasks, cognitive or physical, and if the tester cannot distinguish the difference between …