[Wittrs] Re: The CRA: Is the Third Premise True?
- From: "SWM" <SWMirsky@xxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:50:12 -0000
--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Gordon Swobe <wittrsamr@...> wrote:
> No matter how we conceive of consciousness, the man in the room simply cannot
> understand the Chinese symbols solely in virtue of following rules for
> shuffling those symbols around according to their shapes.
>
> A kindergartner could understand it.
>
> -gts
But Dennett and Fodor and the Churchlands and Hauser and Dehaene can't? What
fools these mortals be, eh? Only Searle and his fellow Searleans manage to rise
above the level of a kindergartener? Don't you think that's just a bit arrogant
and, given the level of the intellects in question, a rather insupportable
claim? -- SWM
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