Person-made Machine
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A Person-made Machine is a machine that is a human-created artifact (a person-designed physical system that can perform tasks).
- Example(s):
- a Computer.
- a Jacquard Loom.
- a Robot.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Machine Processable Artifact, Machine Created Artifact, Human Birth.
References
1990
- (Searle, 1990) ⇒ John R. Searle. (1990). “Is the Brain’s Mind a Computer Program." Scientific American 262, no. 1
- QUOTE: Can a machine think? Can a machine have conscious thoughts in exactly the same sense that you and I have? If by “machine” one means a physical system capable of performing certain functions (and what else can one mean?), then humans are machines of a special...