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Except a lot of natural language grammar is contextual, so there is no way to have a conversation that makes sense without an understanding (internal model) of
by iwwr 11y ago
Except a lot of natural language grammar is contextual, so there is no way to have a conversation that makes sense without an understanding (internal model) of the meanings of words and really together with the cultural context: literature, pop culture, current events etc. You may be able to produce valid sentences that still sound bogus though.
- escherize 11y agoUm, I think there's a challenge with this analysis of the Chinese Room argument. The argument presupposes a perfect lookup table of (sentance -> sentance). So the point of the argument is that given the correct responses, there's no way to tell if there is a contextual understanding. Now you can say that such a table cannot possibly exist, but you would have to say why.
- ThomPete 11y agoNot sure I understand what you mean. Searles Chinese Room argument although fundamentally flawed (the entire room or house is the conscious part) it says that although you can have a person spitting out the right translations the person is does not speak Chinese. Isn't that whats going on here?