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I think most of us agree with Searle that a Chinese room does not understand Chinese.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room



Nor does a neuron.

Argumentum ad populum, I have the impression that most computer scientists, at least, do not find Searle's argument at all convincing. Too many people for whom GEB was a formative book.




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