PHI 1103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Intentionality, Chinese Room
9 Jun 2016
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Chapter 10 - fast thinking - d. dennett. It is unlikely that the right program can be implemented by the human brain. Difference between comp implementing the program and you implementing the program - speed. Its gotta do it quicklythe comp is slow. Computers are too slow by fast program runners do/can have minds. Relative speed is important no matter what kind of parallel process you make it could be too slow. Process info & do it in a reasonable time. Its the speed of processing info sufficiently quickly with the right program then you have a mind. Searle"s argument - lack of intentionality, meaning, aboutness. Searle"s argument - minds have semantic content its a obv facts how our minds workour thoughts are something refer to something. My thought is about this orange chair that there is something in the content in my mind that makes the representation of that thingso semenatic content is an obv fact.
