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tl;dr: If a computer could have an intelligent conversation, then a person could manually execute the same program to the same effect, and since that person co
by gradschool 11mo ago
tl;dr:
If a computer could have an intelligent conversation, then a person
could manually execute the same program to the same effect, and
since that person could do so without understanding the
conversation, computers aren't sentient.
Analogously, some day I might be on life support. The life support
machines won't understand what I'm saying. Therefore I won't mean
it.
- 31337Logic 11mo agoWow. That was remarkably way off base.
- rcxdude 11mo agoI think it gets to the heart of the matter quite succinctly, but the more I see discussions on this the more I think that there's two viewpoints on this which just don't seem to overlap. (as in, I feel like people feel like the Chinese room is either obviously true or obviously false and there's not really an argument or elaboration on it that will change their minds).