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For questions about the work of John Searle (1932-), an american philosopher working in the analytic tradition.
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Why doesn't Searle's argument apply against humans?
It only applies if you assume brains are mechanical and their operations can be reduced to a syntactical program.
If you make no such assumption, then the argument forces you to admit one of two thing …
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Why wouldn't Searle learn Chinese in his Room given infinite time?
You have to be careful to distinguish between the inanimate objects in the room, which do not possess understanding, and the human being, who does possess understanding (as in, the general ability to …
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Why is it impossible for a program or AI to have semantic understanding?
Searle isn't making the point that programs cannot be semantic, he is starting from the definition of a computer program - which is formal, a.k.a syntactical - and then drawing parallels to human usag …
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