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Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon
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Lying, computers and self-awareness
Publication . Castro, Paulo
From the initial analysis of John Morris in 1976 about if computers can
lie, I have presented my own treatment of the problem using what can be called a
computational lying procedure. One that uses two Turing Machines. From there, I
have argued that such a procedure cannot be implemented in a Turing Machine
alone. A fundamental difficulty arises, concerning the computational representation
of the self-knowledge a machine should have about the fact that it is lying. Contrary
to Morris’ claim, I have thus suggested that computers – as far as they are Turing
Machines – cannot lie. Consequently, I have claimed that moral agency attribution
to a robot or any other automated AI system, cannot be made, strictly grounded on
imitating behaviors. Self-awareness as an ontological grounding for moral
attribution must be evoked. This can pose a recognition problem from our part,
should the sentient system be the only agent capable of acknowledging its own
sentience.
Louis de Broglie Realistic Research Program and the experimental detection of Quantum Waves
Publication . Croca, J. R.; Castro, P.; Gatta, M.; Moraeira, R. N.
We give a brief historical review of Louis de Broglie realistic
research program as developed in Lisbon’s research group about nonlinear
quantum physics. We propose and discuss “yes-no” type experiments to
physically detect quantum waves, independently of the associated
corpuscles. Thus, deciding if they are real physical perturbations or mere
probability waves. We finally present a possible technological application
for the detection of such waves in quantum communication.
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UID/FIL/00678/2019