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The Chinese Room

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Searle's Chinese room: following rules to swap symbols can imitate understanding Chinese without any understanding—running the right program, Searle argues, is not having a mind.

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Inside the room, notes come in, rulebook consulted, notes go out. Outside, fluent conversation. Inside, no Chinese.