3 ms·
Huh? How do you get from: (1) It is possible to emulate the mind on a Turing Machine. to: (2) We don't have qualia or consciousness. In my opinion, there's
by gphil 17y ago
Huh? How do you get from:
(1) It is possible to emulate the mind on a Turing Machine.
to:
(2) We don't have qualia or consciousness.
In my opinion, there's nothing about (1) that entails (2).
- dhume 17y agoAccording to the "Chinese room" argument, a machine is not capable of genuinely understanding a language (since it is only looking up and applying transformation rules). It is generally believed that a human can, so that would mean a human mind cannot be fully emulated by a Turing machine. The only alternative seems to be that a human actually has the same limitation as a Turing machine (non-consciousness) and does not really understand language either.