Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!petrus!scherzo!allegra!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Searle's Pearls Message-ID: <2025@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 00:49:43 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.2025 Posted: Mon Nov 4 00:49:43 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 07:06:00 EST References: <2412@sjuvax.UUCP> <1779@watdcsu.UUCP> <2461@sjuvax.UUCP> <1810@watdcsu.UUCP> <1811@watdcsu.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 15 > Interesting, isn't it, that the man who knows the rules for Chinese > explicitly doesn't understand Chinese, while the people who *do* > understand *don't* know the rules... [CANZI] Might this have something to do with the very notion of consciousness, that our minds understand and exercise rules, but "we" (our consciousnesses?) are not (consciously?) aware of them? (Sort of like believing we make decisions "freely", through independent will free of dependencies, though unaware of the root causes...) -- "I was walking down the street. A man came up to me and asked me what was the capital of Bolivia. I hesitated. Three sailors jumped me. The next thing I knew I was making chicken salad." "I don't believe that for a minute. Everyone knows the capital of Bolivia is La Paz." Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr