[Wittrs] Re: Dualism Cooties: Ontologically Basic Ambiguity: Identicality
- From: Gordon Swobe <gts_2000@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:10:07 -0700 (PDT)
--- On Sat, 3/20/10, jrstern <wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [Searle] says there are at least two kinds of substance, because
> computers are the wrong kind to "cause" consciousness.
No. Searle's arguments against strong AI have nothing whatsoever to do with the
substances out of which we make computers.
I can distill Searle's arguments against strong AI down to two sentences:
1) syntax does not give semantics, so formal programs don't cause minds.
and
2) computations exist only relative to an observer, and "computation" does not
name a physical process anyway, so it makes no sense to consider the brain a
digital computer.
-gts
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