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Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson@algekalipso• over 2 years ago
Let me guess. You were a gifted child, and noticed the absurdity that everyone around you didn't seem to care about *intelligence*. You were thinking about consciousness and the brain at 16. Read Dennett, Churchland, and made fun of Chalmers for being naïve. Eliminativist, even? https://t.co/kbKLOSOulF
Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson@algekalipso• over 2 years ago
Replying to @algekalipso
In college you wondered why everyone was so confused about the Chinese Room. Why, for obviously epiphenomenalism and physicalist considerations trivially make a sufficiently good Chinese Room indistinguishable, functionally, from a brain. The "robot reply" was overkill wasn't it?