Revisiting Searle's Chinese Room...

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The Chinese Room Argument.

The reason for revisiting:

Winner Of French Scrabble Title Does Not Speak French

Bill Chappell

Quote:"He doesn't speak French at all, he just learnt the words," his friend (and former president of the New Zealand Scrabble Association) Liz Fagerlund tells the New Zealand Herald. "He won't know what they mean, wouldn't be able to carry out a conversation in French I wouldn't think."

It was only in late May that Richards began his quest to win the French world title, according to the French Scrabble Federation. That's when he set about memorizing the French Scrabble dictionary.

Not saying this validates Searle's argument necessarily, and important to look at his later thoughts, but I did find this interesting...
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'

- Bertrand Russell


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Well, I know Scrabble has some rules and requirements, but I don't think the ability to use a word in a sentence is one of them? In an unfair comparison, chess has knights and bishops but there is no need to know what knight or bishop mean out in the real world. They are just pieces with rules within the game.
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