creators_name: Harnad, Stevan
creators_id: 63
type: bookchapter
datestamp: 2005-02-02
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:50
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title: Searle's Chinese Room Argument
ispublished: inpress
subjects: percep-cog-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: searle, "chinese room argument," "strong AI," computations, cognition, turing test, computationalism, symbol grounding
abstract: Summary of Searle's "Chinese Room Argument" showing that cognition cannot be just computation. Searle implements a computer programme that can pass the Turing Test in Chinese. Searle does not understand Chinese in doing so, hence neither does the computer.
date: 2003
date_type: published
publication: Encyclopedia of Philosophy
volume: LXVII
number: 4
publisher: MacMillan
refereed: FALSE
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citation:   Harnad, Stevan  (2003) Searle's Chinese Room Argument.  [Book Chapter]    (In Press)  
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