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Ep283 - John Searle | Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence

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Do You Understand Chinese?

"I can't get from the syntax to the semantics, but the room can't either," he says. "There's no way the room can get there because that would require some consciousness in the room and there is no such consciousness" He gives an example of a question: "Do you understand Chinese? I look up what I'm supposed to do and I give them back a symbol ... Why do you guys ask me such dumb questions?"

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