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 ...

This situation reminds me very much of the Chinese Room argument employed in the philosophy of mind. Considering my students’ talents and how I might break them free of their Chinese Rooms, I think my ...

The program enables the person in the room to pass the Turing Test for understanding Chinese but he does not understand a word of Chinese. Searle goes on to say, “The point of the argument is ...

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 ...

If not, here’s the gist of it: Searle’s Chinese Room is a thought experiment devised as an argument against “strong artificial intelligence,” the school of thought maintaining that machines can meet ...

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 ...