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What is Chalmers saying then? As i understand he is saying that there can be a world where conciousness does not exist, but all the possible physical experiment
by chr1 2y ago
What is Chalmers saying then? As i understand he is saying that there can be a world where conciousness does not exist, but all the possible physical experiments cannot distinguish between that world and our world. But that simply means the conciousness he is looking for has absolutely no consequence, and therefore his point has no value...
- mensetmanusman 2y agoHe is saying that the person in the Chinese room doesn’t understand Chinese.
- chr1 2y agoHow is this related to the 2nd point in OP's comment? The whole Chinese room argument is based merely on a misinterpretation of computentionalist/physicalist argument. Of course the computer or person who executes the program does not understand Chinese, they are just performing arithmetic operations, the entity understanding Chinese is the program itself, not the medium on which the program runs.