HON 1010C Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Turing Test, Colin Mcginn, Gilbert Ryle
10 Apr 2017
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The legend we have told and sold runs like this: a person consists of two theatres, one bodily, one non-bodily. In this theatre a go on incidents which we can explore by eye and instrument. But, as a person also incorporates a second theater, theatre b. Her go on incidents which are totally unlike, though synchronized with those that go on in theatre a. These theatre b episodes are changes in the states, not of bits of flesh, but of something called consciousness, which occupies no space. Only the proprietor of theatre b has first-hand knowledge of what goes on in it. The experimentalist tries to open its doors, but it has no doors. He tries to peep through its windows, but it has no windows. Known by the proprietor and others: summary of the cartesian position, supported by descartes.
