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Searle's Chinese Room is really bad to give as a starting point for someone, it's basically just a homunculus.
by new_guy 7y ago
Searle's Chinese Room is really bad to give as a starting point for someone, it's basically just a homunculus.
- jerf 7y agoThe idea would be to grapple with the question, not just accept someone's answer, even if you agree with it in the end. Scott Aaronson has what is in my opinion so far the definitive take on the subject in https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf , section 4. It's not just a homunculus, it's an exponentially large one that can't fit into the universe as we know it. While that doesn't necessarily completely destroy the thought experiment, it does, I think, rather color the discussion, vs. the mental image of some small space we'd normally call a "room".