I completely agree that Searle believes in magic (aka “intentionality”), which is not useful. But this does not mean the Chinese Room problem isn’t real.
When you study human language use empirically in natural contexts (through frame-by-frame analysis of video recordings), it turns out that what we think we do with language and what we actually do are rather divergent. The body and places in the world and other agents in the interaction all play a much bigger role in the real-time construction of meaning than you would expect from introspection.
This sounds interesting. Could you expand on this?
I agree that Searle believes in magic, but “intentionality” is not magic (see: almost anything Dennett has written).
This sounds interesting. Could you expand on this?
A list of references can be found in an earlier post in this thread.