On Monday, May 20, 2019 at 11:55:40 AM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > > On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 4:32 AM Philip Thrift <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > >*The Chinese room argument holds that an executing program cannot* [blah >> blah] > > > Philip, I'd really like to know why you think the Chinese room argument is > not imbecilic. I'm also curious why you cut and pasted all that stuff about > silicon biochemistry from Wikipedia. > > John K Clark >
If a program (multi-core x86 code) running on a zillion-processor Intel Core computer can be conscious, then the proposition of "Chinese room" is wrong. @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/965e3909-dae4-4a65-a066-829843d60be8%40googlegroups.com.
