The Foundations of Cognitive Theory

[aleCcowaN]

Ba da bing, ba da boom -- accompanied with a requisite rimshot!

 

[RussDill]

I tentatively agree with this assertion on the technicality that if it's using set theory and logic to produce its responses, then it's not actually a Chinese Room. (ETA: In the sense of the Chinese Room as most people think of it, with a facilitator looking up fixed responses.)

Actually the crux of Searle's Chinese room thought experiment is that the person in the Chinese room is exactly executing the steps of a Turing machine:

Searle imagines himself alone in a room following a computer program for responding to Chinese characters slipped under the door. Searle understands nothing of Chinese, and yet, by following the program for manipulating symbols and numerals just as a computer does, he produces appropriate strings of Chinese characters that fool those outside into thinking there is a Chinese speaker in the room.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/

It is exactly a dualist argument.

 

[Reality Check]

I can't explain even the most basic concept because the replies consist of people arguing that their superhero Turing Machine can beat up my Chinese Room.

The replies are mostly people pointing out the basic inconsistency in the OP "basic concept", barehl.
The OP creates a vague version of the Chinese room thought experiment that excludes pattern matching by requiring an infinite number of patterns to match and then asserting that the room cannot be implemented by pattern matching.
But later there is your example of an implementation using pattern matching !

 

[Dancing David]

I still find it odd that a discussion of Cognitive Theory does not involve actual cognition in an organic brain

 

[marplots]

I still find it odd that a discussion of Cognitive Theory does not involve actual cognition in an organic brain

Turns out, everyone discussing it was using an organic brain all along!

 

[aleCcowaN]

A hammer is not the nail.

 

[Belz...]

You've spent a couple of years thinking about this and reading the literature. Good for you. Some of us have spent a couple of decades. Some of us actually work in relevant fields. You might do well to listen to what people are saying.

Pfft. Puleeze! We all know that experts aren't any more knowledgeable than laymen.

 

[Dancing David]

Turns out, everyone discussing it was using an organic brain all along!

Could have been a turing capable bot!

 

[RussDill]

Speaking of figuring out things about the universe with yourself rather than external experiments, veratasium had a good video today on Poisson's spot.

 

[Nonpareil]

Could have been a turing capable bot!

Not even Turing-capable. Have you read some of these posts?