[ExI] Wernicke's aphasia and the CRA.

[Damien Broderick]

On 12/12/2009 1:15 PM, Gordon Swobe wrote:

> The Englishman in the room shuffles the Chinese symbols according to the rules of Chinese syntax, and he does this well enough to pass the Turing test, yet he never understands a word of Chinese.
>
> His experience would seem much like that of the Wernicke's aphasia patient with the lesion on the semantic center of his brain. He speaks fluent Chinese with good syntax and also has no idea what he's talking about.

This is very tedious. You still refuse to acknowledge what critics have 
shown for many years: the English monoglot speaker is the functional 
equivalent of a single neuron, or a small clump of them connected by 
synapses, functioning at glacial speeds. Nobody claims that such neurons 
are individually conscious. Rescale and find a better argument.

Damien Broderick