The Chinese Room Experiment

Rokk: Is this kind of like the Chinese Room experiment? Similar to that. And that, in there you have- Explain that, Rokk. Yeah. This is John Searle and he's beating up against functionalist accounts of consciousness. He's saying that function is not enough to account syntax. Acting as if you understand something is not the same as actually consciously having this sense,. Right? But it is functioning as if it understands Chinese.