Searle's Chinese Room Argument
Harnad, Stevan (2005) Searle's Chinese Room Argument. In, Encyclopedia of Philosophy. , Macmillan.
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Summary of Searle's "Chinese Room Argument" showing that cognition cannot be just computation. Searle implements a computer programme that can pass the Turing Test in Chinese. Searle does not understand Chinese in doing so, hence neither does the computer.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | Commentary On: Searle, John. R. (1980) Minds, brains, and programs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (3): 417-457 http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/04/84/bbs00000484-00/bbs.searle2.html |
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| Keywords: | Searle, Chinese Room Argument, cognition, computation, computationalism, "Strong AI", symbol grounding |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Web & Internet Science |
| Item ID: | 260424 |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Feb 2005 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2012 11:06 |
| Contributors: | Harnad, Stevan (Author) |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Additional Information: | Commentary On: Searle, John. R. (1980) Minds, brains, and programs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (3): 417-457 http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/04/84/bbs00000484-00/bbs.searle2.html |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | Macmillan |
| Further Information: | Google Scholar |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/260424 |
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