[Wittrs] Re: What the Man in the Room Knows (and when does he know it?)
- From: "iro3isdx" <xznwrjnk-evca@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:21:46 -0000
--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Gordon Swobe <wittrsamr@...> wrote:
> 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.
Okay. It is good to have a point of agreement.
> 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.
I am not arguing for computationalism. You can count me as a skeptic
on that. The only thing I have been arguing in recent posts in this
thread, is that Searle failed to demonstrate his claims.
Searle's conclusion might even be correct. I have only been pointing
out that his argument did not succeed.
Regards,
Neil
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