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How do you know I understand X and Y and not just apply some mechanistic rules for producing this text? Even in the Chinese Room, to make it reasonably efficien
by throw_pm23 4y ago
How do you know I understand X and Y and not just apply some mechanistic rules for producing this text? Even in the Chinese Room, to make it reasonably efficient, you'd need some shortcuts, some organization, some algorithm to do it. How is that different from some kind of understanding?
- goatlover 4y agoBecause we have bodies that interact with the world and each other, and that's what language is based on. It's like computer science people completely forget how we evolved and created languages. Or how kids learn.
- freejazz 4y ago> Even in the Chinese Room, to make it reasonably efficient That's the point - the brain isn't a Chinese room...