Re: Chinese Room
"Machines may be made so that they computationally model the brain, but that doesn't necessarily mean they'll have minds."
It's not at all proved that we can model the brain even of a cockroach. We don't actually know how they work, only some of the reactions and responses in them. There is a lot of nonsense (c.f. dead fish response in scanner). We can't even agree how to define intelligence and if corvids are really smarter or not than some mammals or even monkeys at some tasks. People argue about vocabulary (parrots, corvids, dolphins and apes probably have it) and Language and even the origins of grammar. People can't agree if Chomsky is right or wrong (many don't want to believe what he claims).
Computer Neural networks have little in common with real brains. If anything.
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