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it's still a stupid argument because the brain itself is a chinese room. forget cells or atoms, none of your neurons or synapses understand chinese.
by famouswaffles 4y ago
it's still a stupid argument because the brain itself is a chinese room. forget cells or atoms, none of your neurons or synapses understand chinese.
- nanny 4y ago>forget cells or atoms, none of your neurons or synapses understand chinese. And yet some people seem to understand Chinese just fine. How can you explain that gap? It's only a stupid argument if you first assume that functionalism is true.
- famouswaffles 4y agoHow do i explain the gap ? Obviously emergence. It's everywhere in nature. a single ant does not display the complexity/intelligence of its colony. The argument is supposed/or often used to disqualify machines from consciousness but it's stupid because biological neurons don't understand the bigger picture anymore than an artificial neuron sampled from a model.