Re: Does Searle's "Chinese Room" argument imply that consciousness is non-scientific?

JGCASEY <jgkjcasey@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 26, 2:51 am, c...@xxxxxxxx (Curt Welch) wrote:

...


Some of us, think humans are really special
(maybe - if we are lucky - beyond the ability
of science to understand), and some of us,
think humans aren't all that special at all
(that the cold and unemotional tools of
science will soon reveal that humans, at the
core, are cold unemotional deterministic
machines).

If "having an emotion" means a mechanism that
carries out certain categories of responses in
certain kinds of situations then mechanisms
can have emotions.

You are preaching to the choir. Of course I believe machines can have the
same emotions as humans. I was only talking that way to point out how
some people want to believe that humans are not machines.

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