?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Searle's+Chinese+Box%3A+Debunking+the+Chinese+Room+Argument&rft.creator=Hauser%2C+L&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=John+Searle's+Chinese+room+argument+is+perhaps+the+most+influential+and+widely+cited+argument+against+artificial+intelligence+(AI).+Understood+as+targeting+AI+proper+--+claims+that+computers+can+think+or+do+think+--+Searle's+argument%2C+despite+its+rhetorical+flash%2C+is+logically+and+scientifically+a+dud.+Advertised+as+effective+against+AI+proper%2C+the+argument%2C+in+its+main+outlines%2C+is+an+ignoratio+elenchi.+It+musters+persuasive+force+fallaciously+by+indirection+fostered+by+equivocal+deployment+of+the+phrase+%22strong+AI%22+and+reinforced+by+equivocation+on+the+phrase+%22causal+powers+(at+least)+equal+to+those+of+brains.%22+On+a+more+carefully+crafted+understanding+--+understood+just+to+target+metaphysical+identification+of+thought+with+computation+(%22Functionalism%22+or+%22Computationalism%22)+and+not+AI+proper+--+the+argument+is+still+unsound%2C+though+more+interestingly+so.+It's+unsound+in+ways+difficult+for+high+church+--+%22someday+my+prince+of+an+AI+program+will+come%22+--+believers+in+AI+to+acknowledge+without+undermining+their+high+church+beliefs.+The+ad+hominem+bite+of+Searle's+argument+against+the+high+church+persuasions+of+so+many+cognitive+scientists%2C+I+suggest%2C+largely+explains+the+undeserved+repute+this+really+quite+disreputable+argument+enjoys+among+them.+&rft.date=1997&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F240%2F1%2F199802002.html&rft.identifier=++Hauser%2C+L++(1997)+Searle's+Chinese+Box%3A+Debunking+the+Chinese+Room+Argument.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F240%2F