• lloram239@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    it was addressed by Searle by proposing that a person memorize the contents of the book.

    It wasn’t addressed, he just added a layer of nonsense on top of a nonworking though experiment. A human remembering and executing rules is no different from reading those rules in a book. It doesn’t mean a human understands them, just because he remembers them. The human intuitive understanding works at a completely different level than the manual execution of mechanical rules.

    it contains various components that respond to the word “red”, but it does not contain any components that exclusively respond to any use of the word “red”.

    Not getting it.