Packet L: Bonus 1

In a collection titled for “views into” this argument, the philosopher who originally devised it reiterates that it demonstrates how “syntax is not semantics.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this argument that prompted the “System Reply” and the “Many Mansions Reply.” This argument imagines its creator being given “a script,” “a story,” and “questions.”
ANSWER: Chinese room argument
[10e] The Chinese room argument was created by John Searle to refute the “strong” form of this technology. Ethicists and tech experts have called for encoding this technology with human values through “alignment.”
ANSWER: AI [or artificial intelligence]
[10h] In a parody of the argument, this thinker jokes that since cakes are crumbly, recipes are insufficient for making a cake. This thinker and Andy Clark imagine a man with Alzheimer’s using a notebook as part of his mind in The Extended Mind.
ANSWER: David Chalmers
<McGill A, Philosophy> | Packet L - Harvard A, McGill A, Arizona State A, Georgia Tech B, Toronto D, Georgia Tech D

HeardPPBE %M %H %
5115.8898%51%10%

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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Bowdoin BDartmouth B010010E
BrownDartmouth A1010020ME
MITHarvard B010010E
Southern Connecticut StateBowdoin A010010E
YaleBrandeis B010010E

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Great LakesMain Site514.00100%40%0%
Lower Mid-AtlanticMain Site714.29100%29%14%
Lower Mid-AtlanticMain Site110.00100%0%0%
MidwestMain Site917.78100%67%11%
NortheastMain Site512.00100%20%0%
SoutheastMain Site615.00100%50%0%
UKMain Site1215.8392%50%17%
Upper Mid-AtlanticMain Site621.67100%100%17%