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| Colours: in philosophy, the problem of coulour is, among other things, the question of how individual sensory impressions can be generalized or objectified. See also qualities, qualia, perception, inverted spectra, private language._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Marvin Minsky on Colour - Dictionary of Arguments
I 109 Colours/seeing/Artificial Intelligence/Minsky: It's easy to design a machine to tell when there is something red: start with sensors that respond to different hues of light, and connect the ones most sensitive to red to a central red-agent, making corrections for the color of the lighting of the scene. We could make this machine appear to speak by linking each color-agent to a device that pronounces the corresponding word. Then this machine could name the colors it sees — and even distinguish more hues than ordinary people can. But it would be a travesty to call this sight, since it's nothing but a catalog that lists a lot of colored dots. Cf. >Color/Philosophical Theories, >Seeing/Philosophical Theories, >Sorites/Wright, >Vagueness/Philosophical Theories._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Minsky I Marvin Minsky The Society of Mind New York 1985 Minsky II Marvin Minsky Semantic Information Processing Cambridge, MA 2003 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-16