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Chinese Room & Searle

The Experiment

Details

  • A person who does not know Chinese is locked in a room with a paper and a dictionary
  • Someone from the outside slides a sheet of paper with a Chinese question under the door, and the inside person uses the dictionary to write a translation back
  • Represents a computer in that we don't know what it does, but know it does it.

By: Clayton Gaddie, Hannah Kim, Maddie Gehrich, Skyler Yang

Counter-Arguments

Brain Stimulator Reply

The Systems Reply

  • States that the non-Chinese man is only part of the central processing unit (CPU) within a larger system
  • Ray Kurzweil argues that Searle is contradicting himself when he says "the machine speaks Chinese but does not understand Chinese."
  • Questions if the machine simulated the actual sequence of nerve firings that occur in the brain of a native Chinese speaker
  • Paul and Patricia Churchland argues that Searle exploits our ignorance of cognitive phenomena
  • "no neuron in my brain understands English, although my whole brain does."

Searle's Argument

Intuition Reply

  • Chinese Room Experiment seems to be based off of "intuition"
  • Intuitions = unreliable, biased, and limited
  • Defining the term "understanding" is intuitive in itself

Searle's Claim

4 Main Components

The genesis of the Chinese room originated in the philosophical discussions between functionalist ideas regarding the consciousness of the mind and its relation to the cognition (functionalists identify mental states by mental action rather than mental composition)

Based in the same experimental setup as the Turing Test, it tests human evaluation of computerized responses. However, the Turing Test was used to prove that machines can be indistinguishable from the human mind while Searle argues the opposite, making it a counter.

1.) Computerized programs are solely based on input and based on syntax

2.) Humans have the ability to interpret deeper meaning from language based in semantics

3.) Syntax does not contain and is not adequate for semantic understanding

4.) Programs are therefore not adequate to consitute the mind

Thank You!

Consciousness & Intentionality

• Chinese Room's lack of consciousness

• Consciousness and unconsciousness defined by intentionality

• Intentionality: property of being about something and having content

○ Must be intrinsically mental

○ Must have an aspectual shape

• The unconscious is comprised of things that could have been potentially conscious

• It can then be made intentionally if it is potentially thinkable or conceivable

• Inferential gulf of the aspectual shape = subjectivity

• Ontology refers to the mode of existence (for Searle's purposes)

• Contradiction? Ontology of unconscious intentionality is describable in third-person neurophysiological terms, but mental states are irreducibly subjective

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