PHIL 346 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Intentionality, Chinese Room

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Philosophy Main
• Course: PHIL 346
• Professor: All

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He system could understand because the systems is a part of him. Systems reply simply begs the question by insisting without argument that the system must understand chinese. If we accept the sr we cannot distinguish between a heart liver etc. understanding and a brain understanding. Strong ai cannot tell the difference between mental and non-mental mental. 2. robot reply if we put a computer program inside a robot as its brain which allowed it to walk around, hammer nails, drink etc. such a robot would have a genuine understanding of other mental states. Response to robots reply: the addition of perceptual and motor capacities adds nothing by way of understanding or intentionality. The robot has no intentional states at all, its only moving as a result of its electrical wiring and programming. 3. the brain simulator reply a program that simulates the actual sequence of neurons firing at the synapse of the brain of a native chinese speaker.