Lexicon of Arguments

 

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Causes/Dennett: E.g. Two black boxes (causality): some authors: truth and falsity are semantic properties and as such completely abstract, so that they cannot create anything! - Here is the example:

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E.g. 2 Black Boxes/Dennett: If you press the button "a" on box A, a red light goes on on box B. If you press button "b", a green light goes on. Apparently, the amber light never goes on. Inside box B there is a super computer. You will find that each step formed a clear causal chain without any secrets.
What is puzzling, however, is that the computer always gives the same result, but does not pass through the same sequence of intermediate steps. The box checks the beliefs of the other one. If they are the same: red, if not, green. Incomprehensible (e.g. manipulated message): amber.
Declaration of the designers: It is an "expert system with trivial information" ("world experience").
The builders of the boxes insist, however, that there is no prospect to explore the causal rules with which the whole story started without using semantic concepts (or related to the mind). >Causal relation, >Description levels, >Attribution, >Semantics.