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<div style="font-family: helvetica,arial; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">-------------------------</font></font>Gordon Swobe <font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></font></font>27 Jan 2010 14:32<br>
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<div id="AOLMsgPart_0_0325f193-26d0-45a6-a8a3-12043f44497d" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">></font></font><tt>Your idea seems at first glance to make a lot of sense, so let's go ahead and <br>
</tt><font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">></font></font><tt>add sensors to our digital computer so that it gets environmental inputs that <br>
</tt><font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">></font></font><tt>correspond to the symbols. Let's see what happens:<br>
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</tt><a href="http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/curriculum/searle_chinese_room/searle_robot_reply.php" target="_blank"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">></font></font></a><tt><a href="http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/curriculum/searle_chinese_room/searle_robot_reply.php" target="_blank">http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/curriculum/searle_chinese_room/searle_robot_reply.php</a><br>
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</tt><font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">></font></font><tt>-gts<br>
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But how is this any different from the human brain?<br>
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It can also be viewed as multiple rooms each containing an instance of Searle.<br>
Each searle is processing information in isolation. he never really understands, yet <br>
the combined result is a system we call 'intelligent'. Im fairly sure that the average frontal<br>
lobe could not pass the turing test by itself.<br>
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In the same way the Chinese room in the robot, should actually be multiple Chinese rooms.<br>
It is the combined power of these rooms that determine whether the 'System' should pass<br>
the test. Not examination of isolated fragments and their inner workings.<br>
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Also the discrete synaptic signals our brain uses to communicate with all its parts<br>
and the to I/O with the world is no different to the translation from a visual<br>
image, sound or any other sense into computer binary for the robot.<br>
I do not understand 'Synaptic' firings, does that mean I am not intelligent?</font></font><br>
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