Undebuggability and cognitive science

  • Authors:
  • Christopher Cherniak

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Maryland, College Park

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

A resource-realistic perspective suggests some indispensable features for a computer program that approximates all human mentality. The mind's program would differ fundamentally more from familiar types of software. These features seem to exclude reasonably establishing that a program correctly and completely models the mind.