[Wittrs] Re: What Is Ontological Dualism?

  • From: Gordon Swobe <gts_2000@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 05:28:42 -0700 (PDT)

--- On Wed, 4/7/10, iro3isdx <wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The point here is that the Searle style of argument works
> just as  well for these examples.  Describe the action of the
> processor as symbol manipulation.  And from that it seems quite 
> ridiculous that you could get music or video playing. 

It does not seem to me ridiculous that a machine can produce music or video 
from symbol manipulation, nor does it seem ridiculous that a computer can 
produce orderly output of any kind. We program them to do exactly that.

-gts





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