alt Hacker NewsAnother ad hominem, I'd like you to refute my claim that Searle's argument is essentially 100% magical thinking.
And yes, if for example, medicine would be no worse at curing cancer than it is today, yet doctors asserted that crystal healing is a serious study, that would reflect badly on the field at large, despite most of it being sound.
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malfist • last Tuesday at 2:54 PM
Another ad hominem, just like you calling anyone who talks about the chinese room thought experiment a deist?
globnomulous • last Tuesday at 4:37 PM
Why on earth do you take it as an ad hominem attack? Do you really think your comment isn't dismissive or pompous?
Searle refutes your claim that there’s magical thinking.
“Searle does not disagree with the notion that machines can have consciousness and understanding, because, as he writes, "we are precisely such machines". Searle holds that the brain is, in fact, a machine, but that the brain gives rise to consciousness and understanding using specific machinery.”