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On Building Robot Persons: Response to Zlatev

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Zlatev offers surprisingly weak reasoning in support of his view that robots with the right kind of developmental histories can have meaning. We ought nonetheless to praise Zlatev for an impressionistic account of how attending to the psychology of human development can help us build robots that appear to have intentionality.

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  1. Department of Cognitive Science, Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, 12180, USA

    Selmer Bringsjord

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Bringsjord, S. On Building Robot Persons: Response to Zlatev. Minds and Machines 14, 381–385 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:MIND.0000035477.39773.21

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