Searle's Chinese Room

[Gordon Fitch]

Michael Pollak:
>                       ...  (Although frankly, if he wants to cover all
> mental states, I think he should say minds are features of bodies.  A
> pounding heart and a shiver of delight need more than a brain.  Not to
> mention our spatial-temporal orientation and modes of visualization, which
> are kind of important for how we think too.)

In other words, if a mind requires a body, it requires a whole
world, including other minds.  One might see it, almost, as
a phenomenon, a particular manifestation, of that whole world.
This might be a tough row to hoe for a mere algorithm.

Gordon