John Searle

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By John Searle

  • The Chinese Room Thought Experiment Aug 13, 2003

    Imagine that you carry out the steps in a program for answering questions in a language you do not understand. I do not understand Chinese, so I imagine that I am locked in a room with a lot of boxes of Chinese symbols (the database), I get small bunches of Chinese symbols passed to me (questions in Chinese), and I look up in a rule book (the program) what I am supposed to do.

  • The Mystery of Consciousness