Man in Chinese Room would have to be an alien

Searle assumes the man can carry out millions of operations per second with perfect accuracy.  As real humans get lazy, bored and distracted, the man would have to be an alien with "a mix of superhuman capacities and subhuman needs and desires."



James Moor, 1988 (p.40).
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Man in Chinese Room would have to be an alien
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