Philosophical Speculations

Funnily enough, in the very next page (I am reading the book live), Bernardo uses that exact same example - that of a supercomputer - and yet maintains the claim that: "the very notion of understanding resides eminently in conscious experience" Aren't we confusing qualia, what it feels to ...

Hi everyone-first post, so I’ll keep it short. In p.52 of Rationalist Spirituality, Bernardo makes the following claim about Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment: “Now let us extend the thought experiment a bit ourselves. If the clerk, having internalised the entire manual, were also to learn th...