The reply claims that though the man in the room does not understand Chinese the whole "supersystem" of which he is a part really does understand Chinese (the idea that the room then understands Chinese, by the way, was stated to me by one of the early inventors of the systems reply). ❋ Dennett, Daniel C. (1982)
PC Gamers will have the chance to transform their basic machine into a fully-equipped 'supersystem' each week through the end of the month.
We wanted to expose the wretched underside of the global energy supersystem. ❋ DAVID GOODWILLIE (2010)
Anyone who hunts for a pizza-enjoying subsystem in a human being is on a fool's errand, and anyone who denies that a supersystem understands Chinese on the grounds that none of its subsystems do is making the same error moving in the other direction. ❋ Dennett, Daniel C. (1982)
Dennett pretends that the issue between us is over the possibility of the supersystem having properties which are not properties of any of its subsystems. ❋ Dennett, Daniel C. (1982)
The issue, to repeat, is over how the supersystem — even a supersystem as big as the Library of Congress — can attach any meaning to any of the symbols. ❋ Dennett, Daniel C. (1982)
Rather, we (and many others) claim that the supersystem itself — the whole supersystem — has these powers. ❋ Dennett, Daniel C. (1982)
No one claims the supersystem gives the subsystem by itself special new powers or properties. ❋ Dennett, Daniel C. (1982)
Does that sound like a supersystem that just might have some interesting powers or properties lacked by any of its proper parts or subsystems? ❋ Dennett, Daniel C. (1982)
Dennett thinks my only reply to this is to deny the distinction between supersystem and subsystem and to deny "that a supersystem understands Chinese on the grounds that none of its subsystems do." ❋ Dennett, Daniel C. (1982)
My objection to the systems reply is that though there is a quite valid distinction between the level of the supersystem and the level of the subsystem, it is irrelevant to the issue because neither level has any way of attaching any meanings to the Chinese symbols: ❋ Dennett, Daniel C. (1982)
From a broader perspective, life appears as an integrated web of primary systems, each in turn functioning as a subsystem for a variety of larger systems, and also as a supersystem containing myriad subsystems. log in to read the full version of the story. ❋ DAN CLARK (2010)
Whether we like it or not, we are enmeshed in a global supersystem that conveys a vast amount of fossil fuels every day across the globe, and we hope to dismantle it immediately? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Every system, in turn, is a part of a larger system, called a supersystem. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Whereas my view of the world is of an ungoverned and increasingly chaotic supersystem (composed of markets, networks, and more) that has diminished the role of nation-states and opened the door to small groups to displace them, Tom's view is that the global system as we see it today is merely a transitional frontier en route to a world that is as economically (and to a lesser extent socially / politically) integrated as America's states. ❋ Unknown (2009)
