[ExI] Wernicke's aphasia and the CRA.

[Alfio Puglisi]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Gordon Swobe <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- On Tue, 12/8/09, John Clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> > But for some reason this mysterious phase change only
> > happens to 3 pounds of grey goo in our head and never
> > happens in his Chinese Room. He never explains why.
>
> He explains exactly why in his formal argument:
>
> Premise A1: Programs are formal (syntactic).
> Premise A2: Minds have mental contents (semantics).
> Premise A3: Syntax is neither constitutive of nor sufficient for semantics


A question, how is semantics defined in this context? I have doubts that it
can be defined narrowly enough to allow for semantics in human minds, but
not in sufficiently complex computer programs.

Alfio
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