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Ep283 - John Searle | Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence

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How to Understand Chinese Symbols in a Computer Program

The way the argument goes in its simplest version is I am locked in a room full of Chinese, well, the boxes full of Chinese symbols and a rule of book in English for an manipulating the symbols unknown to me. The program is purely syntactical. It is defined entirely as a set of operations or were syntactical elements,. But it's slightly more technically the notion same implemented program defines an equivalence class that is specified completely independently of any physics.

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