4. Recently, we have seen huge advances in the application of artificial intelligence to solve technological problems. Do these advances give us good evidence that computers can, or will one day be able to think? Does the fact that a computer can carry on a written conversation give us a reason to think that it is a thinking being? Why or why not?
5. What is the best argument that Cartesian dualism is false and materialism (a.k.a. physicalism) is true? Explain why Descartes’ theory of the self is the basis of his philosophical system. What are some reasons to think that this theory is false if materialism is true?
