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Searle imagines himself in a room, following a rulebook to match Chinese symbols he doesn't understand.
From outside, the answers look fluent. Inside, Searle says, there's syntax but no semantics.
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One response is the systems reply: maybe Searle doesn't understand Chinese, but the whole room does.
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What is the systems reply?
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What's the systems reply?
It grants that the man doesn't understand Chinese, but says the whole room does. source 1
- Source 1: Searle, Minds, brains, and programs (1980)p. 419
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Maybe Searle doesn't understand Chinese, but the whole room does.
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