I’m perfectly content to posit an artificial system capable of understanding Chinese and having a meaningful conversation. I’m unable to conceive specifically of a GLUT that can do so.
I don’t think it’s that hard to conceive of. Imagine that the Simulation Argument is true; then, we could easily imagine a GLUT that exists outside of our own simulation, using additional resources; then our Chinese Room could just be an interface for such a GLUT.
As you said though, I don’t find the proposal very interesting, especially since I’m not a big fan of the Simulation Argument anyway.
I find I am unable, on brief consideration, to conceive of a GLUT sitting in some real world within which my observable universe is being computed… I have no sense of what such a thing might be like, or what its existence implies about the real world and how it differs from my observed simulation, or really much of anything interesting.
It’s possible that I might be able to if I thought about it for noticeably longer than I’m inclined to.
I don’t think it’s that hard to conceive of. Imagine that the Simulation Argument is true; then, we could easily imagine a GLUT that exists outside of our own simulation, using additional resources; then our Chinese Room could just be an interface for such a GLUT.
As you said though, I don’t find the proposal very interesting, especially since I’m not a big fan of the Simulation Argument anyway.
I find I am unable, on brief consideration, to conceive of a GLUT sitting in some real world within which my observable universe is being computed… I have no sense of what such a thing might be like, or what its existence implies about the real world and how it differs from my observed simulation, or really much of anything interesting.
It’s possible that I might be able to if I thought about it for noticeably longer than I’m inclined to.
If you can do so easily, good for you.