The-chinese-room

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the-chinese-room

Title text: AM I RIGHT?!

Votey

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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

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Also their butts smell funny

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