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{{comic | number = 3903 | date = October 22, 2015 | title = the-chinese-room | image = 1445529718-20151022.png | votey = 1445529718-20151022after.png | titletext = AM I RIGHT?! }} ==Explanation== {{incomplete}} ==Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :Imagine a man :Into the room are handed chinese :In a room. :Symbols. :The man uses a reference book of :By this means, he hands back the :Rules to look up :Appropriate symbols to carry on a conversation. :How to respond to :Each symbol. :So, the point is that the entity carrying on the conversation cant be considered "intelligent." :It's merely a guy with an infinitely large book, containing every bit of :The infinite number of possible verbal exchanges. :A book that literally occupies every single cubic meter of the :Multiverse and :Contains every answer to every question from :"p=np? To :Does my butt smell funny? :But it isn't :And that is searle's chinese room problem. :"intelligent :In the same way :As a ten-year-old :Chinese boy. :Thank you thank you for that guest lecture. :And, I would like to announce that computer scientists are :No longer allowed to teach philosophy :smbc-comics.com ==Votey Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :Also their butts smell funny :If {{comic discussion}}
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