[Wittrs] Re: What the Man in the Room Knows (and when does he know it?)
- From: Gordon Swobe <gts_2000@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:08:49 -0700 (PDT)
--- On Wed, 3/24/10, iro3isdx <wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>Searle's argument is a sleight of hand. He wants you to concentrate on
claim 1, and see how implausible it is that understanding could arise.
But he does not want you to notice claim 2 at all, for if you notice
that, you will see that it is ridiculous and that making claim 2 thus
undermines the whole argument.<<
I take it that you mean here that humans such as Searle lack the mental
capacity to operate a formal program for conversing fluently in Chinese; that
you find it implausible that any human brain could handle such a gargantuan
task. I agree.
But according to the computationalist theory of mind, ordinary brains do
exactly what we agree they cannot do. And if computationalism = false then
strong AI = false.
-gts
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