[ExI] Meaningless Symbols.

[Gordon Swobe]

--- On Wed, 1/13/10, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:

> The man physically constitutes the whole system but that
> does not mean that understanding at a higher level does not supervene 
> on his low level symbol processing. 

Understanding at what higher level?

The man stands in the middle of a field, naked, processing Chinese symbols in his head according to the syntactic rules specified in the program. Show me who or what understands the symbols.

-gts