[nanny]

>forget cells or atoms, none of your neurons or synapses understand chinese.

And yet some people seem to understand Chinese just fine. How can you explain that gap? It's only a stupid argument if you first assume that functionalism is true.

[famouswaffles]

How do i explain the gap ? Obviously emergence. It's everywhere in nature. a single ant does not display the complexity/intelligence of its colony.

The argument is supposed/or often used to disqualify machines from consciousness but it's stupid because biological neurons don't understand the bigger picture anymore than an artificial neuron sampled from a model.