Searle's Chinese Room Part II 

 

X B

 

Legend

X is the bottle of water

B is the blue coffee mug

given the ultra precies coordinates by GPS

Give it a JPEG image of the mug and bottle

 

 

 

Causal Structures

    What does that mean?     

 

Au Au Au Au Au

 

Perception sems pretty important here

 

Seems to be a sophisticated system that evolved over millions of years

 

EXPERIENCE?

 

Activity??

still need physical structure

it is not just logic structure

 

 

 

not that it is not a program, but must be something more

 

that something a specific physcial causal structure,

 

so that computer programs don't count.

    Why?

    multiple realizability

    the comuter does not matter, just the structure of the program

 

 

Language can be a reflex

 

 

Tricks

 

Searle gets leverage from language

 

Homunculus Theory, little man in the head

 

 

 

Strong AI vs. Weak AI

 

Strong AI:  Minds are programs, Only logical structure matters, Multiple-realizability is mandatory, any computer is equivolent

 

Weak AI: Brain seem to have programs (or information processing), so it is helpful to study these in computers to help understand psychology

 

 

 

Physical structure matters!!!

 

Programs could be necessary, but not sufficient