Lenoxus
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He/him (exactly the 100 billionth such human to be born). Don't worry if you don't see me here for a while 🙂 Aiming for indefinite break
He/him (exactly the 100 billionth such human to be born). Don't worry if you don't see me here for a while 🙂 Aiming for indefinite break
![Most of the discussion consists of attempts to refute it. "The overwhelming majority", notes Behavioral and Brain Sciences editor Stevan Harnad,[e] "still think that the Chinese Room Argument is dead wrong".[13] The sheer volume of the literature that has grown up around it inspired Pat Hayes to comment that the field of cognitive science ought to be redefined as "the ongoing research program of showing Searle's Chinese Room Argument to be false".[14]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rtyj4qd3yydlqcxouokudi6y/bafkreih5s4pfpfpwf2ciqd55ucsoa4iiwcug2cftidwlqin6bjs2lvzkza)
![XKCD
[Hairy throws his arms out as he talks to Cueball, who answers while lifting a hand, palm facing up.]
Hairy: 9/11 was an inside job! Jet fuel can't burn hot enough to melt steel!
Cueball: Well, remember — jet fuel wasn't the only thing on those planes. They would've also carried tanks full of the mind-control agents airliners use to make chemtrails.
Cueball: Who knows what temperature that stuff burns at!
Hairy: Whoa.
Hairy: Good point!
[Caption below the panel:]
My Hobby: Playing conspiracy theories off against each other.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rtyj4qd3yydlqcxouokudi6y/bafkreifaxj6didefbdks2o4i4jggq522dcptp5uz47paqud55rgi45nzdi)
![The "Everyone knows __, but what this book presupposes is [the opposite]" meme from The Royal Tenenbaums](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rtyj4qd3yydlqcxouokudi6y/bafkreibpbbqql3kic6sheyfcxqz5zy3k7jmkyxw7f4nvnq5nvschzqdjnq)
