(Thematic) Can Computers Think? - The History and Status of the Debate..., R.E. Horn, 1998 Start your journey in the upper left with Alan Turing himself with the premise that a computational system can possess all important elements of human thinking or understanding with the quote that "I believe that at the end of the century... one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted". Then the path diverges to topics of "Can computers have free will?" or to "Can computers have emotions". Throughout you read quotes that dispute or support the premise, until you eventually end up at the lower right hand corner of the map to ruminate on "Can computers be persons?". But you won't be alone, great minds from Charles Babbage, Countess of Lovelace, Margaret Boden, John Searle and even Douglas Hofstadtler (author of "Gödel, Escher, Bach") will be brought in as landmarks of ideas. A rare and interesting data visualization that offers direction in coming to a conclusion on the subject. Condition is good with some wear to the old folds. Overall size is approximately 36 x 48 (inches).
