🚀 go-pugleaf

1988:11:19:05:13 SFT

     Couldn't you use the Chinese room analogy to prove that Humans don't
truly understand either.  In this case the matter/energy in the human body
take the role of the man in the room and all his stacks of cards, while
the basic laws of physics take the role of the instuction book.  After all
just as the instruction book tells the man what to do thus simulating a room
which understands Chinese, the laws telling how various atoms, electrons,
energy fields, etc. interact with each other "instruct" the matter and energy
of the human body how to simulate intelligent behavior.  Maybe even
understanding Chinese!  Is there an error in this argument that I'm missing.
     If there isn't then it is a more powerful counter argument than the
agument "of course the man dosn't understand, but the whole room does."

1988:11:19:05:19 SFT

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