You've had a bit of time to digest the reading from Week 14, and have also recently read how certain considerations of consciousness have shaped some of the more important parts of the work of Nagel, Chalmers, and others. Having read that material, let's go back to John Searle's Chinese room thought experiment, and reflect on that again. What is your position on that experiment? Would you say that your position reflects Cartesian dualism? If so, in what sense? If not, then why not?

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You've had a bit of time to digest the reading from Week 14, and have also recently read how certain considerations of consciousness have shaped some of the more important parts of the work of Nagel, Chalmers, and others. Having read that material, let's go back to John Searle's Chinese room thought experiment, and reflect on that again. What is your position on that experiment? Would you say that your position reflects Cartesian dualism? If so, in what sense? If not, then why not?

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michell96 michell96 · Answer 1 · 2022-10-28T11:42:53-04:00

My opinion is not related to Cartesian dualism because my interpretation of John Searle's experiment is that it is a way to demonstrate how the brain adapts to contextual challenges and uses all available tools to solve a problem through reason.

What is Cartesian dualism?

Cartesian dualism is a philosophical term that refers to an intellectual movement sparked by the thought of René Descartes who posits that the human being is a compound of thinking substance and extended substance. The separation of substances that René Descartes made were those called "body" and "soul".

Soul: For Descartes it is the one that has the ability to discern between good and bad, it plays the role of what we now call "mind".
Body: Determined by the environment and is reduced to mechanical laws.

What is my position on the experiment?

My position on the experiment does not reflect Cartesian dualism because I consider the soul to be unrelated in the way that the English-speaking character inside the room solves the problem to arrange the Chinese letters and leave. In general, this entire process is carried out with the logical reasoning capacity of the human mind without the intervention of the soul.

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