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No that's not the argument lol. The Chinese room, the philosophical zombie etc are all trash arguments 1. Your brain is a Chinese room. Forget atoms or cells,
by famouswaffles 4y ago
No that's not the argument lol. The Chinese room, the philosophical zombie etc are all trash arguments
1. Your brain is a Chinese room. Forget atoms or cells, individual neurons don't understand Chinese any more than a random parameter sampled from an artificial neural network.
2. On the philosophical zombie
Let's think for a bit. Suppose you have 2 equations. You don't know what these equations are. However, you know that for any input, the output is the same.
Any mathematician worth his salt will tell you that given said information, those 2 equations are equal or equivalent.
The point I'm driving home here is that true distinction reveals itself in results.
The fallacy of the philosophical zombie is that there is this supposed important distinction between "true understanding" and "fake/mimicry/whatever understanding" and yet you can't actually test for it. You can't show this supposed huge difference. A distinction that can't be tested for is not a distinction.