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by petervandijck
3727 days ago
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I read the Chinese room argument, it seems really naive. It's like saying "my neurons aren't conscious therefore I am not conscious", which is clearly not the case. We're made of matter, computers are made of matter, where is the difference? |
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You need to read Searle's works again; his point is actually the opposite - we are machines made out of biological neurons, which seem to have an externally unobservable property of being conscious; we do not know what it is caused by, but we can see today that it is possible to create a simulation of human behavior by means of logical gates. We have no idea if it will have mind or not.
> We're made of matter, computers are made of matter, where is the difference?
That's an odd argument. And actually does not contradict Searle at all.