The Robot Reply

"Suppose we put a computer inside a robot, and this computer ... would actually operate the robot in such a way that the robot does something very much like perceiving, walking, moving about ... The robot would, for example, have a television camera ..."

Searle's response: "Suppose, unknown to me, some of the Chinese symbols that come to me from a television camera attached to the robot and other Chinese symbols that I am giving out serve to make the motors inside the robot move the robot's legs or arms. ... I want to say that the robot has no intentional states at all ..."

(From "Minds, Brains, and Programs," but not included in Pojman excerpt.)


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Richard Lee, rlee@uark.edu, last modified: 20 November 2002