A simulation of a nuclear strike is not a nuclear strike. A simulation of a nuclear test is a nuclear test. No philosophical paradox here, the only difference is that the real nuclear strike, as for real digestion, affects specific atoms that you have a vested interest in.
Really, I do find this Searle fellow rather dumb. Or rather, I think he's asking an important question such as "At what point does a complex entity acquire perception/feelings/self-perception/whatever?" and he's asking it in an extraordinarily dumb way.
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Date: 2002-12-12 06:38 am (UTC)Really, I do find this Searle fellow rather dumb. Or rather, I think he's asking an important question such as "At what point does a complex entity acquire perception/feelings/self-perception/whatever?" and he's asking it in an extraordinarily dumb way.
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