From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Thu Jan 19 2006 - 15:22:10 MST
Mea maxima culpa; this was supposed to be a private mail, and I
would prefer it be treated as such.
-Robin
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 02:04:22PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:40:38PM -0500, Woody Long wrote:
> > Good fucking god.
> > >
> > > Searle's an asshat who apparently believes that because our neurons
> > > don't understand Chinese, we're not concious. Can we *please* stop
> > > talking about him?
> > >
> > > -Robin
> >
> >
> > Nowhere in the Searle Argument did he assert "People are not conscious."
> >
> >
> > Nowhere in the Searle Argument did he assert that "Neurons don't understand
> > Chinese."
> >
> >
> > Nowhere in the Searle Argument did he argue -
> >
> > 1. Neurons don't understand Chinese.
> > 2. If neurons don't understand Chinese, then people are not conscious.
> > ergo
> > 3. People are not conscious.
> >
> >
> > Therefore,
> > Your belief is not correct.
>
> It's called a metaphor.
>
> neuron == components of a system that understands chinese, i.e.
> each of the books and the human in the room are all neurons
>
> If neurons don't understand Chinese, then people are not conscious.
> == if nothing in the chinese room understands chinese, then nothing
> in the room is concious
>
> -Robin
>
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