Strong Artificial Intelligence: A Functionalist Stance.
In Searles criticisms of Strong Artificial Intelligence many revelations appear. He quite handily dismisses the very Functionalist arguments supporting Strong Artificial Intelligence Firstly, the Systems Reply (Berkeley & M.I.T.) is discarded since the person is the system and still does not understand Chinese. Secondly, with The Robots Reply (Yale), Searle notes the weakness of the argument through its concession that cognition is not only about formal symbol recognition. Thirdly, The Brain Simulator Reply (Berkeley & M.I.T), is suggested to be weak since it needs for knowledge of how the brain works. Even so, the brain shall fire the wrong 'synapses' or causal and the production of intentional states. Finally The Combination Reply is of all three arguments supporting each other to conclude that artificial intelligence is possible. 6 pgs. 7 f/c. 1b.
