COGS 2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Chinese Room, Turing Test, Intentionality
18 Feb 2018
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Lecture 9: classical architectures iii intentionality & the chinese room. Searle believes that there is more to understanding chinese than simply manipulating symbols. So he rejects the physical symbol system hypothesis. The main claims: the chinese room is input-output identical to a real chinese speaker. It would be just about a bunch of symbols being pushed around your head. Searle: not reducible to syntax - i. e. not just moving symbols around to produce appropriate behaviour. "understanding a language, or indeed having mental states at all, involves more than just having a bunch of formal symbols. It involves having an interpretation or a meaning attached to those symbols. : the pssh is false. If we put the room in a robot, so it can sense and move like a real chinese-speaker, the room will understand chinese. Even if the inputs come from your sensors and the outputs make the robot move, you still won"t understand chinese.
