Multiple Choice
Descartes believed that a physical system such as a brain could never achieve human levels of reasoning and language use. Therefore, he concluded that our minds must be nonphysical substances. How does Churchland respond to this point?
A) Computers are good at reasoning and use computer languages, so Descartes was wrong.
B) Computers can only use simple artificial languages, so Descartes might have been right.
C) There are a lot of other things that computers can't do, so Descartes might have been right.
D) We know now that nonphysical substances are no good at reasoning, so Descartes was wrong.
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