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technical ideas
metaphilosophy
approximation
(forgotten)
science of common sense
When is a machine intelligent?
When does it understand?
What does creativity mean.
It has not been possible to formalize even a naive metaphysics well
enough to build a machine based on it.
reference to Moore
distinction between wants and goals
for each quality - when will we need to ascribe it to machines
and when will machines need to ascribe it to people
a child accepts names without assigning a referent confident that
they name something. Having a definite referent in mind is an
advanced state of mind as is the idea that something named might
not have a referent. To a child, a fictitious flying horse is
rather like a far away flying horse.