Thus, -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the only question which can reasonably be discussed at present is not whether robots can fall in love, or whether if they did we would say they were conscious -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- but rather to what extent a digital computer can be programmed to exhibit the sort of simple intelligent behaviour characteristic of children and sometimes animals, such as playing games, solving simple problems, reading sentences, and regognizing patterns. How can a determinate process give rise to experienced indeterminacy? Phenomenology Dreyfus How can small neural activity give rise to experienced largeness or blueness or anger?" and so reject neurology as well as Artificial Intelligence. Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence, 1965 Phenomenology and Artificial Intelligence" Phenomenology in America 1967 Why computers Must have bodies in order to be intelligent rev. of metaphsics 1967 1,19 In a certain relevant sense a little intelligence is not intelligence at all but stupidity. any progrmm that does just one thing well is at best more like an idiot savant than like an intelligent man. read again -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part I [The current state of the field of artificial intelligence] the field of artificzl intelligencde exhibits a recurrent pattern: early, dramatic success followed by sudden unexpected difficulties.