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Um, I think there's a challenge with this analysis of the Chinese Room argument.

Um, I think there's a challenge with this analysis of the Chinese Room argument. The argument presupposes a perfect lookup table of (sentance -> sentance). So the point of the argument is that given the correct responses, there's no way to tell if there is a contextual understanding. Now you can say that such a table cannot possibly exist, but you would have to say why.

Posted by escherize on Jul 22, 2015, 8:51 AM

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Um, I think there's a challenge with this analysis of the Chinese Room argument.

escherizeJul 22, 2015, 8:51 AM

Um, I think there's a challenge with this analysis of the Chinese Room argument. The argument presupposes a perfect lookup table of (sentance -> sentance). So the point of the argument is that given the correct responses, there's no way to tell if there is a contextual understanding. Now you can say that such a table cannot possibly exist, but you would have to say why.

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