The Mind's I
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The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul is a 1981 collection of essays and other texts about the nature of the mind and the self, edited with commentary by philosophers Douglas R. Hof
Cover of the first edition
Hofstadter 2002
Chinese room
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The Chinese room argument holds that a computer executing a program cannot have a mind, understanding, or consciousness, regardless of how intelligently or human-like the program may make the computer
The Mind's I
…mental processes into our mechanical devices. A few views that run counter to this notion, such as John Searle's widely known presentation of the Chinese room argument, are included in this book mainly as targets for refutation. The book is divided into six sections, each focusing on a particular aspect of…
Chinese room diagram with Chinese characters. (MIT OpenCourseWare, 24.09 Minds and Machines, Spring 2007).
John Searle in December 2005
Sitting in the combat information center aboard a warship—proposed as a real-life analog to the Chinese room