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Ep283 - John Searle | Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence

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The Power of Syntactical Definition of Computing

The power of the syntactical definition of computation is you can implement it on a electronic machines that can perform literally millions of computations in a very small amount of time. Now how are we doing? I'm not, everybody seems to understand they're going to be plenty of time for questions. So let me take a drink of water and we go to what? The next step which I think is more important. A lot of people thought well look, maybe the computer doesn't understand Chinese, but all the same it does information processing and it does after all do computation. But so it's not a weakness of computers.

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