[ExI] Wernicke's aphasia and the CRA

[Stathis Papaioannou]

2009/12/9 Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org>:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 11:34:25PM +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
>
>> No, the man could still be completely ignorant of Chinese. Chinese is
>> difficult, but you could probably get a patient idiot to carry out a
>
> Your idiot has to be able to simulate a neuron by hand. That means
> holding a lot of state, and doing billions of computations by hand
> more or less accurately.
>
>> simpler computation in his head following mechanical rules, but have
>
> Let's drop the "in his head" requirement, because It's Just Not Possible.
>
>> no idea what he was doing.
>
> It would take a genius to figure out what he's doing. It would
> be worse than an ant mapping New York.

An idiot who can add and subtract and follow instructions could do
more complex computations in which only these operations are required
without understanding what it is he is doing.


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Stathis Papaioannou