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Re:The Best Books on the Philosophy of Mind by hyperpape on Sunday March 18, 2018 @01:13PM (#16612936)
I don't know what your professor's viewpoint was, but my sense is that the Chinese Room, as taught in undergrad classes, is mostly a punching bag. It's a very clever thought experiment, but you're not meant to believe it. My sense is that Searle is more famous in philosophy for his work in philosophy of language.

"subjective rather than objective reasoning." <-- I don't know what you mean by this.

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Re:The Best Books on the Philosophy of Mind by mcguire on Sunday March 18, 2018 @01:34PM (#16613061)
It's purely an attack on symbolic (and possibly neural network-ish/statistical) artificial intelligence. I myself, however, don't think it's a particularly good attack.
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Re:The Best Books on the Philosophy of Mind by cryoshon on Sunday March 18, 2018 @06:43PM (#16614933)
> but my sense is that the Chinese Room, as taught in undergrad classes, is mostly a punching bag.

this is more or less how I learned it in my classes. we had to write a paper detailing our understanding of one of the major attacks against the chinese room (the systems neurobiology attack was my personal favorite)

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