However, most experts don’t think that AI is conscious (Davalos & Lanxon, 2023; Pang, 2023a), not least because of the influence of Searle’s Chinese room argument. Consciousness is a difficult ...

That doesn’t mean the Chinese room experiment has no value. Far from it. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy calls it “the most widely discussed philosophical argument in cognitive science ...

But not everyone agrees. The late philosopher Daniel Dennett coined the term “intuition pump” in response to the Chinese Room. An intuition pump is a story, not a formal argument. It’s told to elicit ...