I believe i have a response vs the "chinese room" argument
( I could be wrong :p )
Lets forget about good and evil for a moment, there is no distinction in this example.
If I took a newborn child, sat him on a chair and blinfolded him, intravenously fed him, and basically denied him a normal life, denied him use of all his senses except listening and talking, and even then he is to speak ONLY when spoken to, just like hal.
if i spend every day telling him he is a special bio computerized rolodex, and just taught him enough to remember phone numbers. His name is bob the rolodex. His rolodex process was explained by Ricky, version 1.0.
am I wrong for saying, this is my rolodex - Bob Version 1.0 ?
with a few reproduction bots I could mass produce more bob the rolodexs and use my delivery bots to ship them to regular people for more money.
yes, most dr's would probably say Bob vrsn 1.0 would be insane and not live a normal life, but I would say I have a fully automated rolodex manufacturing and sales company, that uses bio fuel efficient computers with a 60 year life expectancy environmentally friendly, with the latest dialing features technology has to offer.
now in 3 languages.
would "bob the rolodex" really be alive ?
when you say alive.....is that any relation to you car dying ?
what do you mean, dead tired ?
do we feel alive at funerals ?
what is the difference between your purpose in life and "bob the rolodex's " purpose in life ?
