Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 18:51:55 03/15/01
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On March 15, 2001 at 15:59:13, Jay Scott wrote:
>Searle is still stuck on that old consciousness gig. John Searle does not buy
>Minsky's claim that "minds are what brains do". I think the interesting thing
>about his Chinese Room argument is how confused people get when trying to answer
>it. He has found an excellent way to get people's minds snarled up.
Very much to the point. I agree with you.
Searle is using old fashioned reasonning. Totally outdated. It's like asking and
insisting seriously on the chicken-or-egg question now that we have learned
about species evolution. That's a question made up to confuse kids.
BTW it sounds like an intelligence test. The guy draws a frame, draws several
points into the frame and asks where, logically, the next point should be drawn.
Many people fail on this test because they try to find a solution INSIDE the
frame. But the solution point has to be drawn OUTSIDE of the frame.
Hey, this could be added to the so called "definition" of intelligence:
intelligence is drawing outside of the frame. :)
Christophe
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