Comment by throw_pm23
2 years ago
How do you know I understand X and Y and not just apply some mechanistic rules for producing this text? Even in the Chinese Room, to make it reasonably efficient, you'd need some shortcuts, some organization, some algorithm to do it. How is that different from some kind of understanding?
Because we have bodies that interact with the world and each other, and that's what language is based on. It's like computer science people completely forget how we evolved and created languages. Or how kids learn.
> Even in the Chinese Room, to make it reasonably efficient
That's the point - the brain isn't a Chinese room...