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Ep283 - John Searle | Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence

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The Chinese Room Is Designated to Animate the Point of the Argument

The point of the argument can be given in the following derivation. Programs are formal or syntactical. That's axiom number one. And minds have a semantics. Now it follows from those that if the computer is defined in terms of its program operations syntactical operations, then the program operations by themselves are never sufficient for understanding because they lack semantics.

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