TheAncientGeek comments on Steelmanning the Chinese Room Argument

TheAncientGeek 20 Jul 2017 15:18 UTC
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All of these things have perfectly good physical representations.

Not if “perfectly good” means “known”.
- tadasdatys 20 Jul 2017 16:09 UTC
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  Not if “perfectly good” means “known”.
  
  It’s ok, it doesn’t. Why do people keep bringing up current knowledge?
  - TheAncientGeek 20 Jul 2017 16:14 UTC
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    Because we are trying to communicate now, but your semantic scheme requires knowledge that is only available in the future , if at all.