[Wittrs] Re: What Is Ontological Dualism?
- From: Gordon Swobe <gts_2000@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:28:08 -0700 (PDT)
--- On Wed, 4/7/10, iro3isdx <wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Searle's third premise entails a very simple claim:
>> nobody and nothing can understand symbols solely from
>> manipulating them according to their shapes.
>
> The Systems reply acknowledges this, and responds "So
> what?"
No, the systems reply does not acknowledge this.
According to the systems reply, the room itself can understand the symbols
solely from manipulating them according to their shapes, or from having some
entity within the room manipulate them according to their shapes.
> The claim is that the system as a whole is not merely
> manipulating symbols, but is also making use of a database of stored
> knowledge.
A database of stored symbols, you mean.
-gts
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