PHL340H1 Lecture Notes - Telepathy, Abstract And Concrete, Noam Chomsky
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What about gestures largely due to chomsky the full range of communication that we use needs compositionality. This is what heil is saying a proposition a type of world. What about the example of logic how are we semantic if we make mistakes ******* Propositions vs. propositional attitudes propositions express states of affairs a propositional attitude expresses how a state of affairs is to be taken: something that you do with a proposition. The turing test do you understand things, or does your brain understand things: a test of whether something is intelligent, what makes something encode a proposition. What makes a physical entity encodive of a proposition. The chinese room: searle in 1970s the semantic engine theory was wrong it wasn"t enough to be a semantic engine. Simulation vs. intelligence performance: there is a difference between simulation on one hand and actual intelligence performance on the room. Chinese room simulated intelligence but did not know anything about these symbols.
