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This is not directed at you personally but I find the whole conundrum tiresome and frustrating. Systems reply, Searle's reply, virtual mind reply, and then Sear
by bondarchuk 6y ago
This is not directed at you personally but I find the whole conundrum tiresome and frustrating. Systems reply, Searle's reply, virtual mind reply, and then Searle replies something like "but a virtual mind can not be really conscious". At the end we are just left with the question "do you agree or disagree with functionalism and computationalism" and all the arguments on both sides turn out to be just empty statements of agreement or disagreement.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoWe agree. The Chinese Room Argument offers little insight into consciousness. All it really does is to take someone with confused thoughts on how 'understanding' works (specifically the way intellectual competence interacts with consciousness), and to tie them in a knot. It fails to demonstrate anything interesting about consciousness. It certainly doesn't demonstrate that computer systems can never be conscious in the way we can. Nothing in the argument applies any more or less to neurons than to transistors.