Descartes Believed That a Physical System Such as a Brain

question 151

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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