Re:A Short Rebuttal to Searle (1984) [pdf]
by naasking on Monday January 21, 2019 @02:16PM
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> You are claiming that any system structured as a digital computer (hence, has a special property) is conscious
Nowhere did I make that claim. You're clearly confused about the arguments being made so I suggest your reread this thread.
> And what decides what symbol corresponds to what real object?
An inductive inference algorithm, like I said.
> This is a laughable argument. "We reproduce (as living beings do). therefore we create minds".
Exactly right. Therefore your claim that we must understand something before we can make it is trivially incorrect.
Not sure about that.
> So what gives the symbols of the semantic model meaning? The correspondence of each symbol to real, observable objects.
And what decides what symbol corresponds to what real object?
> You're assuming that consciousness requires some special property of matter. There's no justification for this assumption.
Really? I thought that is something we have agreed upon. You are claiming that any system structured as a digital computer (hence, has a special property) is conscious, I am saying that it is not enough, it has to be structured some special way.
> We created fire long before we understood it, for instance.
This is a laughable argument. "We reproduce (as living beings do). therefore we create minds".