[ExI] Wernicke's aphasia and the CRA

[John Clark]

On Dec 7, 2009, at 3:20 PM, Gordon Swobe wrote:
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> Searle replies that the man could in principle memorize the syntactic rule-book, thus internalizing the formal program and the entire the room/system. On Searle's view such a man would still lack understanding of the Chinese symbols.

Then either the little man in the room is lying about his linguistic inadequacy or he is suffering from multiple personality disorder because it is clear that somebody or something in that room knows Chinese. By the way I assume Searle is a creationist because if he is right Evolution might have been able to produce intelligence but it could never have made consciousness, not in a billion years and not in a trillion, and yet there is at least one conscious being in the universe. Probably more but I can't prove it.

 John K Clark 

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