Viii. Why Computers Can't Act
American Philosophical Quarterly 18:157-163 (1981)
| Abstract | To be an agent, one must be able to formulate intentions. To be able to formulate intentions, one must have a first-person perspective. Computers lack a first-person perspective. So, computers are not agents. | |||||||||
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