[NooneAtAll3]

> Imagine that you learn the grammar of a foreign language without learning the meaning of the words. You might be able to make grammatically valid sentences. But you will still will not understand a single thing that something written in that language describes. But that will be perfectly clear to someone who actually understand the meaning of the words.

so... back to chinese room arguments?

just because amazon worker inside is just moving folders around following rules, doesn't by default mean the room as a whole can't be corresponding to "something that doesn't understand"

denying emergence as a phenomenon isn't useful when "there are plenty of higher abstraction levels in multiple fields that still capture 99% of events and are easier to model and react to" is the counterpoint