or is Searle actually right?
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2007-01-08
15:44:57
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So, because many people think it won't work, it won't work?
If you simplify neuronal processes to the functions of a calculator, Searle's quandary follows. But the algorithms involved in biological systems are amazingly complex.
How is pinning a regress fair as an attack on functionalism, when it doesn't follow that simple machines have the same properties as the terrifically dynamic?
2007-01-09
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