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The Frankenstein Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

John Wilson
John Wilson
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University of Sussex
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My chief purpose in this paper is to direct attention towards a problem which has received little attention from philosophers, but which I think has a greater claim to importance than any other problem that would naturally arise from a consideration of robots and cybernetic machines: both because it seems of greater intrinsic philosophical interest, and because it represents more nearly than any other problem the kind of worry that afflicts ordinary people. This problem may be roughly formulated in the question ‘What can men do that machines can't ?’

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Philosophy , Volume 39 , Issue 149 , July 1964 , pp. 223 - 232
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1964

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References

1 ‘Minds, Machines and Gödel’ (Philosophy, 1961).Google Scholar