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 ...

Sir Winston Churchill often spoke of World War 2 as the “Wizard War”. Both the Allies and Axis powers were in a race to gain the electronic advantage over each other on the battlefield.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...