We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

  • -- John Searle 塞尔

我们经常通过隐喻和类比将“理解”和其他认知谓词归因于汽车、加法机器和其他人工制品,但这些属性并不能证明什么。

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Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

大多数人对自动变速器的工作原理一无所知,但他们知道如何开车。你不需要学习物理就能理解开车时的运动规律。在使用麦金塔电脑时,你不需要了解这些东西。

Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

是的,这很危险,但并不比开车更危险。