While you say you are only talking about “the machine” it’s rather pointless. Fine, my hair is not sentient either again it’s not an argument.
Strong AI is a system not a machine. The person using a lookup table is just a portion of the system and thus can’t be used to limit the entire system.
Twins don’t nessisarily understand the same languages based on their training. Referring to the Human in “the room” as the machine following specific instructions is the same as saying human DNA don’t understand English. It’s might be true, but it’s definitely irrelevant.
Machine code is binary data used by computers that ideally maps 1:1 with ASM. A human can know ASM and with the aid of a computer produce, read, edit, etc Machine code they don’t directly understand. In effect they are part of a system that understands something that they themselves don’t.
Thus “the Chinese Room” has an inescapable though easily missed failure in logic. Saying the machine is nor the room, seems like an unreasonable objection. But, talking about the machine it’s just as relevant as saying people without exposure don’t know specific languages.
PS: Starting with a glass of water you can separate it into smaller places up to a point. But in the end water is H20, if you just look at the H that’s not water because you reached the point where subdivision results in a different substance. Saying H is not water thus water does not exist is a silly argument.
Strong AI is a system not a machine. The person using a lookup table is just a portion of the system and thus can’t be used to limit the entire system.
Twins don’t nessisarily understand the same languages based on their training. Referring to the Human in “the room” as the machine following specific instructions is the same as saying human DNA don’t understand English. It’s might be true, but it’s definitely irrelevant.
Machine code is binary data used by computers that ideally maps 1:1 with ASM. A human can know ASM and with the aid of a computer produce, read, edit, etc Machine code they don’t directly understand. In effect they are part of a system that understands something that they themselves don’t.
Thus “the Chinese Room” has an inescapable though easily missed failure in logic. Saying the machine is nor the room, seems like an unreasonable objection. But, talking about the machine it’s just as relevant as saying people without exposure don’t know specific languages.
PS: Starting with a glass of water you can separate it into smaller places up to a point. But in the end water is H20, if you just look at the H that’s not water because you reached the point where subdivision results in a different substance. Saying H is not water thus water does not exist is a silly argument.