Artificial Intelligence: Cognitive Ability or Information Processing Computers have become an integral part of our everyday lives. We rely upon these machines to perform innumerable tasks that we often take for granted. Most people realize that computers are able to perform the multitude of functions as a consequence of the programming they receive. These programs give computers a set of instructions that governs their transition from one information processing state to another. Thus, computational machines …showed first 75 words of 1956 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1956 total…a slow, oddly made, functional brain might exist if one could create a situation with enough people who were organized correctly. They recognize that there is no guarantee that its activity would constitute real thought, since the theory they are utilizing positing how the brain functions might not prove to be correct. However, they feel that if this theory is proven to be correct, it would be likely that this simulation would have cognitive ability.