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Originally Posted by The_AK
ah I went with the third doctor,
If the patient has a computer for a brain he is simply programmed to act in the certain way; to respond to the inputs and give outputs. Even though we see that the patient is acting as if he is a normal human being, he isn't truly understanding what is happening to him. For example, if he gets poked by a stick, the response would be to jitter from that poke. Although we observe him and think that he is in the state of pain, he is simply responding to that input and giving us an output. Therefore, it is more reasonable to agree with the third doctor that the patient is unable to have a mind and mental states.
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I had a whole scenario described to disprove this
But it contradicted some thought experiment. I asked my TA if I could just make my own thought experiment but she said it would be best just to take it out. So yea...