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TheAncientGeek comments on AI prediction case study 3: Searle's Chinese room - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 13 March 2013 12:44PM

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 12 April 2015 08:12:25PM 0 points [-]

A system can possess properties that its components don't; 

But a computational system can't be mysteriously emergent. Your response is equivalent to saying that senantics is constructed, reductionistically out of syntax. How?