Maps | General information
(large file!) | Details and
features | Specifications
| Issue areas | Press
release
Methodology | Background
paper | The cartographic
metaphor | Criteria | How
the maps work (large file!)
For Instructors and Students | Importance
of Turing debate | For instructors
| For students | Protagonist
index | FAQS
Commentary and Reviews | Commentary
and reviews | Errata and
corrections
Action Items | Buy the set
of maps | How you can participate
in this debate
Examples | View the maps. | Map
1 | Map 2 | Map
3 | Map 4 | Map
5 | Map 6 | Map
7 | (large files!)
MacroVU home page | Send us a message |
Project
Director's Home Page
Every map presents 100 or more major claims, each of which is summarized succinctly and placed in visual relationship to the other arguments that it supports or disputes. The maps, thus, both show the intellectual history of this interdisciplinary debate and display its current status. Claims are further organized into more than 70 issue areas, or major branches of the arguments.
Status: All maps are available for viewing.
Here is a list of the seven maps. They are large files...be
prepared to wait 30 seconds to over a minute.
Map 1: Can computers think?
Map 2: Can the Turing test
determine whether computers can think?
Map 3: Can physical symbol
systems think?
Map 4: Can Chinese Rooms think?
Map 5, Part 1: Can connectionist networks
think?
Map 5, Part 2: Can computers think in images?
Map 6: Do computers have to
be conscious to think?
Map 7: Are thinking computers mathematically
possible?