PHIL 346 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Specific Performance
30 Aug 2018
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Forces by themselves are neither constitutive of nor sufficient for luminance. Electricity and magnetism are neither constitutive of nor sufficient for light. Response: first, axiom 3 of the above argument is false. Indeed, it begs the question despite its intuitive plausibility. Second, the luminous room experiment demonstrates nothing of interest one way or the other about the nature of light. This above response is the same response that should be given to searle"s cra. The emerging consensus on these failures is that the functional architecture of classical sm machines is simply the wrong architecture for the very demanding jobs required. Three anatomic points will provide a basic contrast with the architecture of conventional electronic computers. First, nervous systems are parallel machines, in the sense that signals are processed in millions of different pathways simultaneously. Second, the brain"s basic processing unit, the neuron, is comparatively simple.
