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  • Implicit learning from a computer-science perspective

  • Peter Kugel
  • Journal:
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences / Volume 19 / Issue 3 / September 1996
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 May 2011, pp. 556-557

  • Shanks and St. John (1994a) suggest that “human learning is almost invariably accompanied by conscious awareness (of what is being learned).” From the viewpoint of a computer scientist who tries to construct learning systems, that claim seems rather implausible. In this commentary I wish to suggest why, in the hopes of shedding light on the relationship between consciousness and learning.

  • The Chinese room is a trick

  • Peter Kugel
  • Journal:
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences / Volume 27 / Issue 1 / February 2004
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 February 2004, pp. 153-154

  • To convince us that computers cannot have mental states, Searle (1980) imagines a “Chinese room” that simulates a computer that “speaks” Chinese and asks us to find the understanding in the room. It's a trick. There is no understanding in the room, not because computers can't have it, but because the room's computer-simulation is defective. Fix it and understanding appears. Abracadabra!