Exactly. The brain is analogous to the room, not the person in it. Try removing a chunk of a brain and see how well it can “understand”
Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say?
kaffiene@lemmy.world 6 months agoIn the sense that the “argument” is an intuition pump. As an anti ai argument it’s weak - you could replace the operator in the Chinese room with an operator in an individual neuron and conclude that our brains don’t know anything, either
themusicman@lemmy.world 6 months ago
JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
There is no intelligent operator in a neuron
kaffiene@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah? Of course?