[tacon]

>For his 2006 book “Philosophy: The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions,” Nicholas Fearn broached the topic of artificial intelligence in an interview with Professor Dreyfus, who told him: “I don’t think about computers anymore. I figure I won and it’s over: They’ve given up.”

Them's fighting words!

[eevilspock]

I think it's important to understand that Dreyfus doesn't think that AI is not possible, but that it's not possible via computation, i.e. computers. He considers consciousness and understanding as emergent properties, not something you can code. He also used Heidegger's concept of Dasein, "being in the world" as Dreyfus translated it, and argued that such being can't be programmed.