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| Jan 3, 2023 at 23:07 | comment | added | Roddus | @Martin Kealey. Hi Martin. I think Searle's main argument is that symbols in themselves are meaningless. They have extrinsic meaning - humans can interpret them, but the meanings are, as Searle says, observer-relative. So if a machine receives and internally operates by manipulating only symbols, then it's forever operating in a universe of meaninglessness. For instance the symbols sensors send to the computer will say nothing about what is sensed. The computer could never understand its world (could never have human-like intelligence). | |
| Jan 3, 2023 at 23:00 | comment | added | Roddus | @gnasher729 wouldn't your brain cells arranged into an appropriate structure and running the appropriate process understand English? And isn't the structure and process is what "I" refers to when someone says "I understand"? | |
| Jan 3, 2023 at 18:06 | comment | added | gnasher729 | My brain cells don’t understand English, yet I do. That’s his elementary mistake. Not considering that I and my brain cells are not the same. | |
| Jan 2, 2023 at 22:11 | history | answered | Martin Kealey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |