1. Does Searle believe that a machine could think?
2. Is the Chinese room argument intended to establish that implementing a computer program is not necessary in order to understand Chinese?
3. Does the conclusion of the Chinese room argument imply that Deep Blue cannot think?
4. What about COG?
5. "According to Descartes, he doesn't know whether tables and chairs exist, because he might be the victim of a supremely powerful and malicious deceiver." True or false?
6. According to Descartes, in what part of the body does the soul directly exercise its functions?
(a) the heart
(b) the lateral geniculate nucleus
(c) the pineal gland
(d) the pituitary gland
7. Is Smullyan's dualist (a) a property dualist or (b) a substance dualist?
8. According to Ryle, why did the Cartesian category mistake arise?
(a) because theorists assumed that the mind was a complicated physical machine, whose workings were not predictable by Galileo's mechanics
(b) because theorists took the mind to be like the Average Taxpayer
(c) because it reconciled the view that the mind is not physical with the view that the mind is a sort of machine
(d) because it was a consequence of Galileo's theory of spectral machines
9. Is it a category mistake to think that a cricket team has a wicket keeper?
10. Is Ryle a Materialist?
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