[Wittrs] Re: What Is Ontological Dualism?
- From: "SWM" <SWMirsky@xxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:00:55 -0000
--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Gordon Swobe <wittrsamr@...> wrote:
> Stuart,
>
> Let us say we construct a real Chinese room. We place Dennett in the room and
> pass him some Chinese symbols.
>
> The system we call "Daniel Dennett" then manipulates the symbols while
> employing the full resources of his putative "system property of
> consciousness" in an attempt to understand those symbols. But of course he
> fails to understand them.
>
> It would seem then that on Dennett's own account, Dennett has an implicit
> belief in Cartesian dualism.
>
> -gts
Huh? Dennett argues that the system is what counts and that Dennett-in-the-room
would not be the system that counted. How is that to evidence "an implicit
belief in Cartesian dualism"?
SWM
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