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Searle’s Chinese Room• A person (you?) in a room with a slot in the door.– Book of rules– Box of symbols• Chinese people outside push strings of symbolsthrough the slot• You use the rules to make new strings and pushthem out the slot.• Do you speak chinese? Does the room?
Why not formal symbols?• What symbolic computers do well and whatpeople do well. • Nature doesn’t work like that.• The metaphor is vague.• Every device, considered at different levels,could be a model of many different things.
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Page 3 and 4: Reason respecting behavior• Info
Page 5 and 6: Formal Systems• We know of anothe
Page 7 and 8: Formal Systems have a history
Page 9 and 10: Early Accounting SystemsPlain token
Page 11 and 12: Early Accounting SystemsAn envelope
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Page 15 and 16: Properties of Spoken and WrittenLan
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Page 19 and 20: The Secret of Our SuccessThe world
Page 21 and 22: Consider the abacusHere patterns of
Page 23 and 24: The three big pieces of early1. For
Page 25 and 26: Physical Symbol System• Symbolic
Page 27 and 28: And it works!• This is exciting!
Page 30 and 31: Could the brain be a meat computer?
Page 32 and 33: Ok, But….• The time course of r
Page 36 and 37: Questions remain• If the PSSH doe
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