[ExI] How not to make a thought experiment

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Sun Feb 21 04:11:51 UTC 2010


On 21 February 2010 14:22, Spencer Campbell <lacertilian at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've just read the Wikipedia article for the CRA in more detail, as
> well as the following:
> http://cogprints.org/4023/1/searlbook.htm

Jeez!! These people just can't seem to get that the matter inside a
brain is S-T-U-P-I-D. Really, really stupid. Certainly much more
stupid that the man in the Chinese Room, who at least understands that
he is doing some sort of symbol manipulation. It's an embarrassment to
philosophy!


-- 
Stathis Papaioannou



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