COGS 2160 Chapter Notes - Chapter CS 6.1-6.2 (pp.145-165) : Cognitive Science, Intentionality, Turing Test
13 Apr 2017
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Searle: no machine can be capable of intelligent behaviour (according to pss) the syntactic manipulation of the symbols preserves their semantic properties. The semantic properties of the input symbols are their meanings i. e. certain questions. The semantic properties of the output symbols are answers to those questions. So, as long as the person in the chinese room follows the instructions correctly, the semantic relations between input and output will be preserved. Searle argues that the chinese room doesn"t understand chinese because the person in it doesn"t there is no sense in believing it is intelligent because it does not understand. Imitation game: has 3 players, a man, a woman and an interrogator. Interrogator is in a separate room, but communicates through a device that gives clues about the identity of other player. Interrogator is asking questions that allow him to find out which one is man and which is woman.
