Abstract
Many proponents of computationalism,' the view that cognition is computation, are busy trying to practice what they preach: they are trying to build artificial persons. Two such proponents are the philosophers John Pollock and Daniel Dennett. In his last two books, How to Build a Person [45] and Cognitive Carpentry: A Blueprint for How to Build a Person [44], Pollock argues that in the future his OSCAR system will be a full-fledged person. For Dennett, the person-to-be is the robot COG, or a descendant thereof, a being taking shape with Dennett's help at MIT.2 I have advanced a number of arguments designed to establish that the person building project will inevitably fail, but that it will manage to produce artifacts capable of excelling in the famous Turing Test, and in its more stringent relatives.3
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