LIN + Neurosci: PET studes of linguistic processing
(Jaeger, Lockwood)
LIN + PSY: lexical semantics (Koenig, Mauner)
LIN + AI: computational linguistics
(Koenig, Shapiro, Rapaport, Pierce)
PHI + GEO + LIN: spatial ontology (Smith, Mark)
Turing Test & Chinese-Room Argument
Turing Test:
Computers will be said to be able to think to the extent that we cannot
distinguish their linguistic/cognitive ability from a human's
Chinese-Room Argument (Searle):
It's possible to pass a TT without really thinking
Pat Hayes has allegedly defined cognitive science as
"the ongoing research program of showing
Searle's Chinese Room Argument
to be false"! (Harnad, cited in Boden 2006:1384)