PHILOS 1E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Paul Churchland, David Chalmers, Chinese Room
1 Oct 2016
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Continue, but considering more specifically problem of consciousness. Smart"s view sensations identical w/ brain processes. To report a sensation is to report how certain brain processes appear to us subjectively. Why are certain brain processes and not others, accompanied by a. Leibniz imposs to explain perception on mechanical principles in terms of shapes and motions. Imagine a machine which by its structure produced thought, feeling perception. and to suppose it enlarged proportionally to the dimensions of a mill, which we could go inside. But on entering all we would see would be pieces pushing against one another and never anything to account for a perception to being about what is outside. Mill thought experiment relates to chinese room experiment. Chinese room searle nothing corresponding to intention or meaning in the computational processes involved within the room. Also relates to frank jackson"s what mary didn"t know in 1982. Mary brilliant scientist neurophysiology of vision.
