--- abstract: |- Searle's Chinese Room Argument showed a fatal flaw in computationalism (the idea that mental states are just computational states) and helped usher in the era of situated robotics and symbol grounding (although Searle himself thought neuroscience was the only correct way to understand the mind). altloc: - http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad00.searle.html chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Harnad given: Stevan honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2001 date_type: published datestamp: 2005-01-06 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/40/23 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Bishop given: M. honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Preston given: J. honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 4023 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/4023/1/searlbook.htm full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'Searle, Chinese Room Argument, Turing Test, Symbol Grounding, computationalism, cognitivism, robotics, language functionalism, neuroscience' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:49 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: Essays on Searle's Chinese Room Argument publisher: Oxford University Press refereed: FALSE referencetext: | Cangelosi, A. & Harnad, S. 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(1990b) 'Is the Brain's Mind a Computer Program?', Scientific American, vol.262, pp.20-5. Steklis, H.D. & Harnad, S. (1976) 'From Hand to Mouth: Some Critical Stages in the Evolution of Language', in Harnad et al. (eds.), 1976, pp.445-455. Turing, A.M. (1950) 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence', Mind, vol.49, pp.433-460. http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/abs/comp/199807017 Wittgenstein, L. (1953) Philosophical Investigations, (New York: Macmillan). relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:55:07 subjects: - cog-psy - phil-mind - comp-sci-art-intel - comp-sci-robot succeeds: 1622 suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: What's Wrong and Right About Searle's Chinese Room Argument? type: bookchapter userid: 63 volume: ~